Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Over the past decade, every major religious group in America has seen its number of followers flatline or fall, according to new polling. The largest decline was seen among Catholics, with 10.3% ...
An extensive new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that only 16 percent of Americans say religion is the most important thing in their lives. A decade ago, 20 percent ...
According to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, this group — commonly known as the “nones” — now constitutes 29% of American adults. That’s up from 23% in 2016 and 19% ...
The following is the percentage of Christians and all religions in the U.S. territories as of 2015 (according to the ARDA): [62] Note that CIA World Factbook data differs from the data below. For example, the CIA World Factbook says that 99.3% of the population in American Samoa is religious. [63]
Approximately 25% of the Jewish American population lives in New York City. [129] According to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies newsletter published March 2017, based on data from 2010, Jews were the largest minority religion in 231 counties out of the 3143 counties in the country. [67]
Irreligiosity is often under-reported in American surveys; many more express lack of faith in God or have alternative views on God (e.g. deism), than those who self-identify as atheists, agnostics and the like. [28] In 2012, 23% of religious affiliates did not consider themselves to be "religious", though this is subjective.
Now everyone, Burge included, will be looking for a new church. “I have been preaching every Sunday since August of 2005 and I need to be a member of a church for a while, not up front,” he said.
The Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion conducted a survey covering various aspects of American religious life. [118] The researchers analyzing the survey results have categorized the responses into what they call the "four Gods": An authoritarian God (31%), a benevolent God (25%), a distant God (23%), and a critical God (16% ...