Religion

The church is one of the few major mainline Protestant denominations in the country that currently does not sanction same-sex marriage.

Nearly six-in-ten Americans participate in some type of community group or organization, including 11% who say they take part in at least four such groups.

On issues including national identity and religious minorities, views among UK adults align very closely to general opinion across the EU.

Germany has seen a dramatic shift away from Protestantism – one that has greatly outpaced a decline in the share of Germans who are Catholic.

Tuesday is the 210th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Roughly eight-in-ten U.S. adults say humans have evolved over time.

Conrad Hackett, associate director for research and senior demographer, discusses why we studied the relationship between religion and happiness, health and civic engagement.

Evolution remains a contentious issue. When asked about it, highly religious Americans' responses can vary depending on how the question is asked.

Measuring public opinion on evolution has never been an easy task for survey researchers.

In many countries, actively religious people are more likely than their less-religious peers to describe themselves as very happy.

People who are active in religious congregations tend to be happier and more civically engaged than either religiously unaffiliated adults or inactive members of religious groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the United States and more than two dozen other countries.