On Easter Sunday, the worship band at Bethel Community Church in Redding, California, opened the service with "This Is Amazing Grace," a 2012 hit that has remained one of the most popular worship ...

Part 1: Great traditions of American sacred song -- Songway: sacred-song traditions of native America -- Pilgrimage and penitence: sacred-song traditions of the Hispanic southwest -- Sacred harp ...

Religion is good at cultivating beliefs. For thousands of years, religions have used music, ritual, oratory, and missionaries to bolster and spread religious beliefs. Do these beliefs impact ...

Belief in a spiritual realm beyond the physical world remains very common among U.S. adults, the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) finds. Roughly eight-in-ten Americans believe “there is ...