(RNS) — More Asian Americans identify as atheist, agnostic or nonreligious than before, according to a survey released Wednesday (Oct. 11) by Pew Research Center. But 40% of those Pew surveyed, who ...

Growing up in New York City’s Chinatown, Winnie Wu attended church services regularly with her family. An immigrant from Guangzhou, China, Wu recalled that her grandmother was converted to ...

“Survey Research and the Study of Religion in East Asia,” a conference hosted by Pew Research Center, took place Oct. 11 and 12, 2017, at Pew Research Center headquarters in Washington, D.C. More than ...

About one-in-ten Asian Americans now identify Hinduism as their religion (11%), essentially the same as in 2012 (10%). An additional 6% of all Asian Americans say they feel close to Hinduism aside ...

When it comes to religious affairs in Central Asia, authorities are relying on Soviet methods even as they aspire to move away from the Soviet legacy. Religion, especially Islam, is a cultural marker ...

Islam has been the dominant religion in Central Asia for nearly 1,300 years. For about three-quarters of the last 100 years, Islam -- and religion in general -- was essentially outlawed in Central ...

Government restrictions on religion have reached an all-time high across the globe with the Asia-Pacific region as the worst offender, according to the latest study by Pew Research Center. The ...

Seeking students to examine the ways in which religious texts and scholars circulated across Asia, assembling materials to be employed in a future graduate seminar on the history of translation in ...

The number who say they are Christian is down from 42% in 2012 when Pew last conducted a large-scale survey of Asian American religious affiliation. Outside of the U.S., within homeland Asian ...