Researchers have long known that religious teens are less likely to engage in risky behavior. My team’s research explains why. We surveyed multiple times the religious beliefs and risk behavior of ...

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Psychiatrists and clergymen, meeting over the ailing psyche of modern man, still eye one another suspiciously. Rare is the churchman who makes systematic use of psychiatric techniques in his ministry ...

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Sociologist Thibault Ducloux devised a unique research protocol. This researcher, affiliated with the Laboratoire Triangle in Lyon, followed some 30 non-religious people who went to prison, in order ...

(RNS) — As Gen Z women and men drift apart on multiple dimensions in American life, they are also increasingly making different political and religious choices. Exit polls show that compared with the ...