Although younger generations are attending church less frequently, they are increasingly turning to the Bible, according to a new study. Millennials, long seen as disengaged from religious practice, ...

The fact that Christian Smith has written an extremely important sociological study of American religion with Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America is hardly news. He ...

"Extinction boom" is a term in evolutionary biology describing the paradoxical surge that sometimes occurs just before a species disappears. When a population exhausts its habitat--too many bodies, ...