Religion in America

'The ARIS (American Religious Identification Survey) time series tracks changes in the religious loyalties of the American public. '

'data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, etc.'.

'Interfaith Voices is the nation's only public radio show exclusively about religion. We were born just three days after 9/11, when a feisty nun got the idea to host a multi-faith panel on religion and terrorism, live on the radio.'

from the Library of Congress

'...Our goal for this podcast series is to make scholarly research on religion interesting, relevant and accessible to a broad audience...'

This six-episode series explores the tumultuous 400-year history of how religious faith has shaped public life in America, from the Puritans’ settlements to the 2008 presidential election.

This program surveys America’s increasingly pluralistic spiritual landscape via The Pluralism Project at Harvard University; the Interfaith Center at the Presidio; Inter-Faith Ministries, in Wichita; and the United Religions Initiative, in San Francisco. Participants include Diana Eck, Director of The Pluralism Project; the Reverend Paul Chaffee, Director of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio; the Reverend Sam Muyskens, Executive Director of Inter-Faith Ministries; religious mythologist Karen Armstrong; Rabbi David Rosen; and George Washington University’s Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

How much do Americans really know about religion? A Pew survey has some surprising answers. NewsHour correspondent Judy Woodruff has details. Original broadcast date: September 28, 2010.