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for most other religious groups.6 Elsewhere, a state may favor multiple religions while still providing added benefits to one religion in particular. For example, Russian law designates Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism as the country’s “traditional” religions, while also recognizing the “special contribution” of Russian
identifying with other religions, including Islam, Protestant Christianity and Roman Catholicism, rose in the 1990s and then leveled off. (Estimates of the size of Russia’s Muslim population vary. The most recent ISSP survey finds that Muslims make up 5% of Russia’s population, but other surveys and studies have somewhat higher estimates. For
most other American Jews, Orthodox Jews tend to identify as Republicans and take conservative positions on social issues such as homosexuality. On average, they also are more religiously committed and much younger than other U.S. Jews, and they have bigger families. This report uses data from the 2013 Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews to look
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religious groups, most people say it is very important to respect all religions to be “truly Indian.” And tolerance is a religious as well as civic value: Indians are united in the view that respecting other religions is a very important part of what it means to be a member of their own religious community. India is majority Hindu, but ...
4. Among the 25 most populous countries, Egypt, Russia, India, Indonesia and Turkey had the highest overall restrictions on religion in 2016 36 Methodology 39 Appendix A: Government Restrictions Index 55 Appendix B: Social Hostilities Index 58 Appendix C: Religious restrictions index scores by region 61 Appendix D: Summary of results 67
governments and societies around the world impinge on religious beliefs and practices. The studies are part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. To measure global restrictions on religion in 2018 – the most recent year for which data is
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number of Americans raised in interfaith homes appears to be growing. Fully one-quarter of young adults in the Millennia. generation (27%) say they were raised in a religiously mixed family.Fewer Generation Xers (20%), Baby Boomers (19%) and adults from the Silent an.
were “stemmed” or converted to their roots, and common words (such as most prepositions) were removed. For the analysis of most distinctive terms, words used by more than 95% of all churches were also removed, as well as those used by fewer than 250 (roughly 4%). Source: Pew Research Center analysis of sermons delivered April 7-June 1, 2019 ...