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FOR RELEASE OCT. 17, 2019 - pewforum.org
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their ...
BY Gregory A. Smith - Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project
Whereas indicators of religious identity and frequency of prayer produced by self-administered surveys (like the NPORS) can be directly compared with estimates produced by interviewer-administered surveys (like the Center’s earlier telephone surveys), self-administered surveys may produce slightly lower estimates of religion’s importance ...
More Americans Than People in Other Advanced Economies Say
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause deaths and disrupt billions of lives globally, people may turn to religious groups, family, friends, co-workers or other social networks for support. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in the summer of 2020 reveals that more Americans than people in other economically developed countries say the outbreak has bolstered their religious faith and ...
In America, Does More Education Equal Less Religion?
The idea that highly educated people are less religious, on average, than those with less education has been a part of the public discourse for decades, but some scholars of religion have called this notion into question.1 And a new analysis of Pew Research Center surveys shows that the relationship between religion and education in the United ...
BY Neha Sahgal, Jonathan Evans, Ariana Monique Salazar, Kelsey Jo Starr ...
Respondents were selected using a probability-based sample design that would allow for robust analysis of all major religious groups in India – Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains – as well as all major regional zones. Data was weighted to account for the different probabilities of selection among respondents and to align with demographic benchmarks for the Indian adult ...
FOR RELEASE JULY 23, 2019 - Pew Research Center's Religion & Public ...
The remainder of this chapter analyzes religious knowledge among different religious groups within key subject areas including the Bible, Christianity, elements of Judaism, knowledge of other world religions, atheism and agnosticism, and religion in public life.
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Religious Beliefs and Practices ...
The latest release of the Landscape Survey includes a wealth of information on the religious beliefs and practices of the American public, including the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in God and the afterlife, attitudes toward the authority of sacred writings, frequency of worship attendance and prayer, and participation in religious activities outside of worship services ...
NUMBERS, FACTS AND TRENDS SHAPING THE WORLD
A Note on Defining Religious Affiliation and the Study’s Terminology s referred to as “religious identity”) is based on self-reports. Catholics, for instance, are defined as all respondents who say they are Catholic, regardless of
FOR RELEASE SEPT. 10, 2020 - Pew Research Center's Religion & Public ...
This report focuses on the religious lives of teens and the family dynamics of religion, including the degree to which parents and teenagers share religious identities, beliefs and practices; how often they talk about religion, pray before meals and read scripture together; the reasons teenagers participate in religious activities; and the ...
NUMBERS, FACTS AND TRENDS SHAPING THE WORLD FEBRUARY 10, 2014
all three waves of ISSP data, no more than Source: International Social Survey Programme about one-in-ten Russians said they attend “Russians Return to Religion, But Not to Church,” February 2014 religious services at least once a month. The PEW RESEARCH CENTER share of regular attenders (monthly or more often) was 2% in 1991, 9% in 1998 and 7% in 2008. This suggests that although many ...
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