Pew Research Center: Religious Landscape Study

Digital Atlas of American Religion

IUPUI Polis Center Digital Atlas of American Religion

The Association of Religion Data Archives

We'll Cross That Bridge When We Get To It

Religions of Boston Course Offering

UMass Boston Course on Religions of Boston

Has Boston Given Up On God?

God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape

Perspectives from the Edge: Chaplains in Greater Boston, 1945-2015

Religious Landscape Study

Pew Research Center study of adults in the Boston metro area and their religious composition.

Pew Religious Landscape Study Boston

Pew Research Center information about religious composition of adults in the Boston metro area.

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Atheist Gives U. of Texas $1 Million Endowment to Study Non-Religious Americans

February 10, 2020

An 80-year-old retired professor has given the University of Texas a $1 million endowment to study Secular Americans.

Brian Bolton gave the money to UT — a school he has no formal connection to — in the hopes that a professor would study the ever-growing segment of non-religious people in the country.

Bolton has a...

A Young Imam in the American Midwest

With ongoing violence in the name of Islam, rising rhetoric against Muslims and refugees, and isolation in the American Muslim community, Imam Hassan Selim faces a grueling schedule of inreach and outreach in his Midwestern community. When presidential candidate Donald Trump comes to town for a rally, pressure builds on the young imam.... Read more about A Young Imam in the American Midwest

Trouble in Troy

Padma Kuppa, a local Hindu resident of Troy, Michigan, challenges her exclusion from the town’s National Day of Prayer observance.... Read more about Trouble in Troy

Swastikas at School

After swastika graffiti is found at the Pierce Middle School in Milton, Massachusetts, Principal Karen Spaulding’s first steps are a matter of district protocol: document, report, investigate, and punish those responsible. But her next steps are less clear.... Read more about Swastikas at School

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