March 11, 2009 -
By Anthony Advincula, New America Media
March 11, 2009 -
By David Lee Simmons, Georgia Online News Service
March 9, 2009 -
Christian faith still flourishes in the Bible Belt -- but there, like elsewhere, it's in decline. That's one of the findings of the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey released this week. The study is especially valuable because it tracks trends over time -- previous reports were done in 1990 and 2001 -- and draws on a rich volume of data (in 2008, questionnaires of 54,400 people).