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and in the United States by state, asking the degree to which respondents consider themselves to be religious. The Pew Research Center and Public Religion Research Institute have conducted studies of reported frequency of attendance to religious service. [2] The Harris Poll has conducted surveys of the percentage of people who believe in God. [3]
The Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were 313,209 Muslims as of 2020. [75] Texas is the fifth-largest Muslim-populated state in the country. [78] The Jewish population was around 128,000 in 2008. [79] In 2020, the Jewish population grew to over 176,000. [80]
[6] According to the Pew Research Center and D Magazine, Houston is the third-most religious and Christian area by percentage of population in the United States, and second in Texas behind the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. [7] [8] The metropolitan area of Houston's Christian community is dominated by Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
'Fundamental foundation of American and Texas law' The discussion at the SBOE comes at a time when state leaders in Republican-controlled jurisdictions have been focused on religion in public schools.
[2] 46.8% of metroplex residents are highly religious, and 29.6% are moderately religious. [3] In a 2017 survey, 37% of metroplex residents reported reading the Bible in the past week and strongly agreeing that the Bible is accurate, the 25th highest percentage among U.S. cities. [4]
In addition to archived survey data, the ARDA also provides information regarding the religious composition of, and the state of religious freedom in, the 232 nations currently recognized by the United States State Department; [10] membership and distributional data and historical lineages ("Family Trees") of major world religions and U.S ...
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Religious switching along with Hispanic immigration has significantly changed the religious profile of some states and regions. Between 1990 and 2008, the Catholic population proportion of the New England states fell from 50% to 36% and in New York fell from 44% to 37%, while it rose in California from 29% to 37% and in Texas from 23% to 32%.