WASHINGTON (CN) – Do you have a working definition of Rosh Hashanah? Could you pick the holy text of Hindus out of a lineup? If you said Jewish New Year for the first, and have no problem ...
The results of the survey suggest that there are many traits that are linked with levels of religious knowledge. These include demographic factors, such as age and education, as well as religious ...
(RNS) — I’m mortified. I just took the 15-question multiple-choice quiz of religious knowledge that Pew Research included in its new survey of Americans’ religious knowledge … and I got one of them ...
Compared with other Americans, U.S. Jews have relatively high levels of religious knowledge – including about non-Jewish religions like Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. But most non-Jewish Americans ...
As a benchmark for cultural religious literacy, take this quiz from Pew’s Religion and Public Life Project. You’ll be surprised at how easily you’ll be in the top 1% of Americans for religious ...
A recent review of studies found that religious belief is inversely associated with intelligence. That is, more intelligent people are generally less likely to be religious. The reasons for this are ...
This post is in response to Why Are Religious People (Generally) Less Intelligent? By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. A recent review of studies found that religious belief is inversely associated with ...
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A church stands next to a mosque in Kosovo. A confidential report says the Dutch foreign ministry has an inadequate knowledge of religion, and the role it plays in other countries. (Credit: ErzaRudi/ ...