Religious affiliation of members of 117th Congress
Figures for U.S. adults based on aggregated Pew Research Center political surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019. Figures for Protestant subgroups and Unitarians come from Pew Research Center’s 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014. “Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 117th Congress
BY Gregory A. Smith - Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project
Whereas indicators of religious identity and frequency of prayer produced by self-administered surveys (like the NPORS) can be directly compared with estimates produced by interviewer-administered surveys (like the Center’s earlier telephone surveys), self-administered surveys may produce slightly lower estimates of religion’s importance ...
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Religious Beliefs and Practices ...
The latest release of the Landscape Survey includes a wealth of information on the religious beliefs and practices of the American public, including the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in God and the afterlife, attitudes toward the authority of sacred writings, frequency of worship attendance and prayer, and participation in religious activities outside of worship services ...
U.S.Religious Landscape Survey - Pew Research Center's Religion ...
In recent decades, much high-quality research has been done on the religious makeup of the United States and on the way religion relates to politics and public life. Nevertheless, there are still major gaps in our knowledge of the American religious landscape. For instance, estimates of the size of religious communities in the U.S. – especially the smaller groups – are often contested ...
In America, Does More Education Equal Less Religion?
The idea that highly educated people are less religious, on average, than those with less education has been a part of the public discourse for decades, but some scholars of religion have called this notion into question.1 And a new analysis of Pew Research Center surveys shows that the relationship between religion and education in the United ...
The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
Collecting and analyzing this trove of data was a massive endeavor, and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life has published the results in stages. In August 2012, we released a report (“The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity”) that focused on the survey’s findings about religious beliefs and practices. It showed that while there is much commonality of belief ...
Religious affiliation of members of 116th Congress
Religious affiliation of members of 116th Congress Incumbent/ ... Note: One race, in North Carolina’s 9th District, has not yet been certified due to allegations of electoral fraud. Source: Figures for Congress based on Pew Research Center analysis of data collected by CQ Roll Call, reflecting members of Congress to be sworn in on Jan. 3, 2019.
The Changing Global Religious Landscape
In addition, this report provides updated global population estimates, as of 2015, for Christians, Muslims, religious “nones” and adherents of other religious groups. And the population growth projections in this report extend to 2060, a decade further than in the original report.
Religious Knowledge
Factors in Religious Knowledge What factors seem to contribute to religious knowledge? Data from the survey indicate that educational Education Linked attainment – how much schooling an individual has With Greater completed – is the single best predictor of religious Religious Knowledge knowledge.
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The remainder of this chapter analyzes religious knowledge among different religious groups within key subject areas including the Bible, Christianity, elements of Judaism, knowledge of other world religions, atheism and agnosticism, and religion in public life.
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