a powerful force in shaping the views and values of the American people. To better understand the connections between Americans’ religious beliefs and practices and their social and political views, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has undertaken an extensive survey on religion in America.
earlier, while Hispanics have grown as a share of all three religious groups. Racial and ethnic minorities now make up 41% of Catholics (up from 35% in 2007), 24% of evangelical Protestants (up from 19%) and 14% of mainline Protestants (up from 9%). Religious intermarriage also appears to be on the rise: Among Americans who have gotten married
role of women. It also looks at Muslims’ views on religious extremism and religious conflict in their country. Finally, the report takes advantage of prior Pew Research surveys of Muslims in the United States to compare the views of U.S. Muslims with the views of Muslims worldwide. The global survey of Muslims was conducted in two waves.
representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. If the next Religious Landscape Study is conducted using a self-administered mode of survey administration (e.g., web or mail surveys), it may well produce substantially lower estimates of religious identification and practice than contemporaneous interviewer-administered surveys.
Sep 3, 2014 · religious beliefs, values and connections in their day-to-day lives.3 3 In recent years, religious leaders across a wide range of faiths have urged followers to put their religious beliefs into practice through everyday behaviors such as consumer choices, environmentalism, hospitality, charity, honesty, forgiveness and healthy living. See, for
desire to pass their religious values on to their children. For example, a majority of Christian and Muslim parents in nearly all the countries surveyed say they pray or read scriptures with their children, and solid majorities also say they send their children to religious education programs. Intense Religious Experiences
Jan 31, 2019 · Note: The actively religious are those who identify with a religion and attend religious services at least once per month. Inactives are those who identify with a religion and Source: Data for United States from Pew Research Center’s 2012 Gender and Generations survey. Data for all other countries from World Values Survey, 2010-2014.
Aug 26, 2020 · you say that? [PROBE FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS] their religion and science, and what role they think values should play in The important thing in this section is to avoid suggesting that science and religion are in conflict. We want interviewees to describe the relationship between their religious views and science, on their own ...
Nov 12, 2016 · violence used to enforce religious norms, such as the targeting of people with albinism for rituals by witch doctors. This type of hostility was reported in 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015, up from nine countries in 2014. (For more on rising religious restrictions in sub-Saharan Africa, see sidebar on page 30.)
cultural superiority would seem to indicate a European divide, with high levels of religious nationalism in the East and more openness toward multiculturalism in the West. Other questions asked on the survey point to a further East-West “values gap” with respect to key social issues, such as same-sex marriage and legal abortion.