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 …

In America, Does More Education Equal Less Religion? Overall, U.S. adults with college degrees are less religious than others, but this pattern does not hold among Christians

laboration involving social scientists in about 50 countries. During the same period, the share of Russia’s population tha does not identify with any religion dropped from 61% to 18%. The share of Russian …

Finally, the chapter examines the growth of non-Christian religions in the U.S. and takes a closer look at the composition of the religiously unaffiliated population.

In order to have data that were comparable across many countries, the study focused on five widely recognized world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism – that collectively …

de their current or childhood religion are included in the “other religions” category. Figures s ow one decimal place to capture granularity in changes to India’s religious composition. Small differences …

Preface In little more than a century, the religious landscape of sub-Saharan Africa has changed dramatically. As of 1900, both Muslims and Christians were relatively small minorities in the region. …

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 …

Roughly one-in-five U.S. adults were raised with a mixed religious background, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This includes about one-in-ten who say they were raised by two people, both …

Aug 13, 2007 · Q.17 As far as your present religion, what denomination or church, if any, do you identify with most closely? Just stop me when I get to the right one. Are you (READ) Baptist, Methodist, …