Barry Kosmin News Today

In 1879 the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, a former socialist and anarchist, founded an organization that was novel in two ways.

While M&S has long been boycotted by many, people are now calling for the closure of M&S branches in the Middle East, particularly in Qatar, where the brand operates four stores. 

Here’s a question you won’t find on a Gallup or Pew survey: “How much do you hate religious proselytizing?” Wouldn’t it be nice to know how Americans really feel about being evangelized? Don’t expect the answer soon! The problem is that neither major polling organizations nor such major funders ...

Women run nearly half of North America's 150 federations, but men control almost all the largest cities — and 73% of the system’s $9 billion in assets.

Though the Bay Area is an exception, men lead almost all the Jewish federations in the largest U.S. cities — and 73% of the system’s $9 billion in assets.

Voices of Hope, a nonprofit created by the descendants of Holocaust survivors from across Connecticut, is hosting its second Descendants of the Shoah Conference, a one-day event at the Mandell JCC in West Hartford on Sept. 11.

“. . . There has been a significant generational shift away from religion and theism.”

Barry A. Kosmin is a member of the CFI Board of Directors. He was founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture at Trinity College Hartford and a founding editor of the international academic journal Secularism & Nonreligion.

We seem to be poised on the threshold of a bright new era in which nonreligious Americans will be properly studied by the social sciences. What better time to review what we know about the various flavors of religious nonaffiliation and nonbelief? And what better time to review the facts and fal ...

Something novel happened during this century’s first decade: Social scientists (re)discovered the nonreligious. Call it “reaching critical ma ss” or a “tipping point,” but suddenly quite a few researchers in quite a few places began to focus their attention directly on the nonreligious—not just ...