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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 ...
They said the event also was held to discuss how people can support the principle of separation of church and state because it is vital to maintaining religious freedom in Oklahoma and the U.S.
Former President Trump and Vice President Harris have focused on religion in recent days as they make their final appeals to Christian voters just weeks before the election. Thursday night’s Al ...
"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."
The Court investigated the history of religious freedom in the United States and quoted a letter from Thomas Jefferson in which he wrote that there was a distinction between religious belief and action that flowed from religious belief. The former "lies solely between man and his God," therefore "the legislative powers of the government reach ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations. Academics identify a variety of ...
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s. ...
The religion of the spouse or partner was also asked. If the initial answer was "Protestant" or "Christian" further questions were asked to probe which particular denomination. About one third of the sample was asked more detailed demographic questions. Religious Self-Identification of the US Adult Population: 1990, 2001, 2008 [115]