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Census data to be released Tuesday shows Australia changing rapidly before COVID, gaining an extra one million residents from overseas in the past five years, almost all of them in the three years ...

Seven years ago, Simon Longstaff, the executive director of the St James Ethics Centre, was approached by a small group of parents. Longstaff’s not-for-profit organization in north Sydney usually ...

New study finds hundreds of thousands of people, especially those over 55, are quietly turning to Christianity. Christine Hill grew up in a non-Christian home in Geelong, Australia. As a child, she ...

Co-authored with Dr. Ken Baskin. Few things are more important to human psychology writ large than religion. But what does this concept really mean? The more deeply we investigate it, the odder ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Political scientists often measure the concept of tolerance with a hypothetical ...

Religion is serious. Religion is deadly. Religion is beautiful. Religion is... entertaining? While there is no agreed-upon definition of religion, most people think they know what it is, where it is ...