Sacred texts mean different things to different religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and practice, and other times, not much importance is placed on them at all.

Majorities say religious texts should not shape their national laws. People are about as likely, or slightly more likely, to say that the will of the people should win out over religious texts if the ...

Mandating the use of biblical texts in public schools by presenting them as neutral, historical and secular will likely prove counterproductive to the goals of the officials intent on putting them ...

And so I take seriously their commitments to their sacred texts and the historic value of that. Martin: And it'd be weird to be like, "You've got the Bible, and I've got Jane Eyre." ...

The legislation is part of a growing wave of state efforts to test the boundaries of legally permissible religious activity in schools.. Supporters of the Texas legislation call it the “Coach ...

It is a foundational democratic tenet taught in every basic U.S. history course: the Constitution bars the government from endorsing an official religion or favoring one over others.