By some measures, East Asia seems like one of the least religious regions in the world. Relatively few East Asian adults pray daily or say religion is very important in their lives.And rates of ...

(RNS) — In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released Monday (June 17) by Pew Research Center.

In East Asia, people are leaving their religion at rates that are among the highest in the world, according to a survey released June 17 by Pew Research Center. But while many East Asians do not ...

Religion’s fluidity in East Asia was the report’s “most striking characteristic,” said Fenggang Yang, founding director of Purdue University’s Center on Religion and the Global East ...

In Vietnam, the only Southeast Asian country surveyed, 48 per cent of respondents say they had no religion, compared to 38 per cent for Buddhists and 10 per cent of Christians, but 86 per cent had ...

Across South and Southeast Asia, countries have very different religious makeups, yet there are commonalities in how they practice and think about religion, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies' Joint Committees on Southeast Asia, on Korea, and on Japan. Contents ...

On visit to Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause By Christopher Lamb, Kathleen Magramo , Masrur Jamaluddin , James Legge and ...

As a scholar of East Asian Buddhism who studies how and why deities transform over time, I see the Laughing Buddha as a key figure that shows how people have adapted Buddhism to different cultural ...

In Southeast Asia, religious pluralism is shaped not by organic social consensus but by the influence of governments, dominant religious groups and nationalist ideologies.