Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" According to new studies in the sociology of religion, the importance of religion and religious institutions has declined dramatically across the world in ...

Discover the top 11 countries with the largest Christian populations in 2025, from the U.S. to Africa, based on global data and demographic trends.

Islam grew faster than any other major religious group globally from 2010 to 2020, according to estimates released on Monday from Pew Research Center, a U.S.-based think tank. Over the period, the ...

Religion seems to be a complicated and many-sided issue. On one hand, religion reportedly motivates charity, compassion, ethics, goodwill, kindness, morality, righteousness, selflessness, unity, etc.

Is one of the most long-standing trends in religion itself disappearing before our very eyes? For four decades, studies across the globe and around the world concluded that women were more religious ...

Strong religious beliefs often shape disapproval of abortion – in the abstract. But when young women are actually deciding ...