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While we have particular views on many issues on the Global Agenda, and have commissioned and will continue to promote research into questions affecting these, we are also conscious of the valuable work being done by many other institutions and researchers, some of whom have decades of experience in grappling with aspects of these challenging topics.

In this section of the site – Other Voices – by far the largest of all, we offer a wide cross-section of views and insights.

Most Jewish Americans have Long-standing Connections to Israel

Posted Oct 16, 2023| by Pew Research Center

This month’s deadly attacks on Israel by Hamas have created a sense of solidarity among Jewish Americans, underscoring the personal connections that many Jewish Americans have with Israel. Based on a Pew Research Center survey, John Gramlich and Alan Cooperman suggest that 82 percent of... Read More

Across U.S. Religious Groups, More See Decline of Marriage as Negative than Positive

Posted on Oct 12, 2023 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Pew Research Center

In the U.S., there is now much less concern about people having fewer children. Catholics and members of the historically Black Protestant tradition are as likely to say that people having fewer children is positive for society, as to say it is negative. These findings... Read More

Measuring Religion in China

Posted on Oct 12, 2023 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Pew Research Institute

Western definitions of religion and measures of religious participation – such as attendance at congregational worship services - fit the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism, but are less suited to traditional beliefs and practices in East Asia. The Pew Research Institute comments that... Read More

Open Society Barometer: Can Democracy Deliver?

Posted on Sep 19, 2023 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations commissioned a poll of more than 36,000 respondents from 30 countries with a collective population of over 5.5 billion, to gauge the attitudes, concerns, and hopes of people on human rights, democracy, and international governance. While the findings suggest that the... Read More

What Do We Know about Religion and Interreligious Peace? A Review of the Quantitative Literature

Posted on Oct 09, 2023 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by GIGA Hamburg

Interreligious relations remain an important dimension of human coexistence as the increase in religiously motivated violence and discrimination shows clearly. Building on a new concept of interreligious peace that includes but exceeds the absence of interreligious physical violence, Julia Köbrich and Lisa Hoffmann, in their... Read More

Five Facts about Religion in South and Southeast Asia

Posted on Sep 19, 2023 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Pew Research Institute

For most people in South and Southeast Asia, religious identities are not just about religion. Indeed, most adults who claim a religion say that their tradition (e.g., Buddhism or Islam) is not just a religion one chooses to follow, but also a family tradition one... Read More

Lived Secularity: Religious Living in a Secular Age

Posted on Oct 10, 2023 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Secularism is sometimes understood in monolithic ways, especially in opposition to religious ways of life. But religion and secularism are not opposites, suggests Paul Hedges. In his article for the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, he reasons that religious people can be... Read More