The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

"Dismemberment was considered in Han culture the most humiliating way to die. Execution by dismemberment was the most ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons in a mass grave in Mongolia has revealed they were soldiers in the Han-Xiongnu Wars more than two millennia ago.

Moreover, the common assumption that cat domestication took place in China during the Han Dynasty between 206 B.C. and A.D.

One of the world’s greatest collections of ancient Chinese bronzes outside of China is on view for the first time in NYC at China Institute Gallery.

A sweeping census on the state of American religion reveals a less sensational tale of Christianity in decline and a rise of the religiously unaffiliated compared to a decade ago. Pew Research ...

Americans’ overall perceptions of religion tilt positive, according to the survey, but appear to have cooled since 2014. Overall, 51% express mostly positive views of religious institutions ...

nonreligious Americans, and narrowing gender gap. A sweeping census on the state of American religion reveals a less sensational tale of Christianity in decline and the rise of the religiously ...

A major new study from Pew Research Center offers an in-depth look at the American religious landscape and how it’s changed over time. Researchers determined that the share of U.S. adults who ...

Organized religion was out of favor, “none of the above” was in, and houses of worship across the country were too busy dealing with aging congregations and rising building costs to find successful ...

The religious profiles of U.S. adults – how religious they are and what religion they identify with – are closely aligned with their partisan political identities, according to the new Religious ...

Pew Research Center has tracked trends in American religion since 2007 via the Religious Landscape Study (RLS) and since 2020 using the annual National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS). But the ...