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January 13, 2013 - NPR
NPR: Losing our religion: The growth of the 'nones'
This week, Morning Edition explores the "nones" — Americans who say they don't identify with any religion.
January 12, 2013 - The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun: 10 trends in global religion
Many predicted religion would die out as secularism spreads around the planet. But so far they've been wrong, mostly.
January 09, 2013 - CNN
CNN: The spiritual but not religious likely to face mental health issues, drug use, study says
Can being spiritual but not religious lead to mental health issues?
January 03, 2013 - BBC
BBC: Spiritual, but not religious
Spirituality is a common term these days, used by Prince Charles, and by the Archbishop of York as a way of stepping beyond religious divides.
December 23, 2012 - The Denver Post
Denver Post: LDS scholars: "Mormon moment" could expand into cultural shift
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is on track to grow in a way that will change the religious complexion of the United States, social scientist and LDS convert Mark Koltko-Rivera says.
December 18, 2012 - PBS Newshour
PBS: Median age of faithful is clue to future of religion worldwide
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a new study Tuesday, "The Global Religious Landscape," that provides a comprehensive look at religious affiliation by country and worldwide.
December 18, 2012 - AFP
AFP: Christians most populous of world's religions
Christians are the world's biggest religious group, numbering some 2.2 billion people, according to a study released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
December 18, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: "No religion" third world group after Christians, Muslims
People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world's faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.
December 18, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Study finds one in 6 follows no religion
A global study of religious adherence released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center found that about one of every six people worldwide has no religious affiliation.
December 18, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Faiths and the faithless
RELIABLE data on the age and whereabouts of the religious and irreligious are hard to come by, which makes a new report on the topic from the Pew Research Centre welcome.
December 18, 2012 - CNN
CNN: 5 takeaways from new Pew survey on global religion
The world is religiously diverse and overwhelmingly faithful, according to a study released Tuesday by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
December 17, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Survey: Perceptions of Mormons mostly unchanged
The perception of Mormons in the U.S. changed very little even though the religion received unprecedented attention this year with Republican Mitt Romney running for president.
October 09, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: As Protestants decline, those with no religion gain
For decades, if not centuries, America's top religious brand has been "Protestant." No more.
October 09, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Number of Protestant Americans is in steep decline, study finds
For the first time since researchers began tracking the religious identity of Americans, fewer than half said they were Protestants, a steep decline from 40 years ago when Protestant churches claimed the loyalty of more than two-thirds of the population.
October 09, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Who are the ‘Nones’?
More than 13 million atheists and agnostics and nearly 33 million claim no particular affiliation.
October 09, 2012 - Time
Time: Non-religious on the rise
A new study has found that for the first time the U.S. does not have a Protestant majority.
October 09, 2012 - NPR
NPR: Study finds Americans less religious than ever
The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a new study that looks at the rise of people in the U.S. who do not identify with any religion.
October 09, 2012 - United Press International
UPI: Pew: Religiously unaffiliated on rise
The number of Americans who don't identify with a religion has grown, with a fifth of adults saying they're religiously unaffiliated, a Pew survey indicated.
October 09, 2012 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Protestants lose majority in U.S. for first time; unaffiliated up
Protestants, who have played a central role in the nation’s founding and development, no longer make up a majority of Americans for the first time in history, according to a study released Tuesday.
October 09, 2012 - CNN
CNN: Survey: Protestants are no longer majority in U.S.
Following a string of recent developments that suggest waning Protestant power – like the first Supreme Court with no Protestant justices, and a Protestant-free Republican presidential ticket – a new Pew survey finds that Protestants are no longer the majority in the United States.
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