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As of 2016, 46% of the Houston-area population was Protestant, 31% was Catholic, 5% was of other religions, and 18% was of no religion; [4] in a separate 2020 study by the Public Religion Research Institute, 72% of the population were Christian, and 40% were Protestant while 29% were Catholic. [5]
Islam and Protestantism share a common vitality in the modern world: "The two most dynamic religious movements in the contemporary world are what can loosely be called popular Protestantism and resurgent Islam", although their approach to civil society is different.
A 2014 Pew Research poll found that the states with the greatest percentage of respondents who stated that religion was "very important" or "somewhat important" to their lives were Alabama (90%) and Louisiana (90%), while the state with the smallest percentage was Vermont (57%).
Studies of American politics have long shown that religion is a good predictor of how Americans vote. As a result, most registered white Christians, including evangelical Protestants and Catholics ...
Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in the city of Houston, Texas. In 2012, Kate Shellnutt of the Houston Chronicle described Houston as a "heavily Christian city". [ 1 ] Multiple Christian denominations originating from various countries are practiced in the city; among its Christian population, the majority are either Catholic ...
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
About 30,000 Muslims call Dallas home. The Muslim population is about 4,000 in Fort Worth and 3,000 in Arlington. Dallas-Fort Worth Muslims congregate at the 72 mosques and 12 prayer spaces in the ...
"Religion and Nineteenth-Century Voting Behavior: A New Look at Some Old Data." Journal of Politics 69.2 (2007): 339-350. online [dead link ] Gjerde, Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 (1999). Green, John C. "How the Faithful Voted: Religious Communities and the Presidential Vote in 2004."