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Over the past decade, every major religious group in America has seen its number of followers flatline or fall, according to new polling. The largest decline was seen among Catholics, with 10.3% ...
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. ...
Since 2006, the number of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 16 percent to 26.8 percent. A lot of religious switching is going on. One in four Americans (24 percent) were previously a ...
Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (79%), white mainline Protestants (67%), black Protestants (56%), Catholics (71%), and the religiously unaffiliated (62%) all agreed that religion was losing influence on American life; 53% of the total public said this was a bad thing, while just 10% see it as a good thing. [293]
The Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the US population. [ 39 ] A 2010 Pew Research Center study comparing Millennials to other generations showed that of those between 18 and 29 years old, only 3% self ...
The Public Religion Research Institute's 2020 Census of American Religion showed that the overall decline of white Christians in America had slowed, stabilizing at around 44% of the population. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] It also showed that, contrary to expectations, white evangelicals had continued to decline and that they were now outnumbered by white ...
On a state level, it is not clear whether the least religious state resides in New England or the Western U.S., as the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) ranked Vermont as the state with the highest percentage of residents claiming no religion at 34%, [10] [11] but a 2009 Gallup poll ranked Oregon as the state with the highest ...
Religiously unaffiliated Americans and Hispanic Catholics are the most likely religious groups to acknowledge climate change is caused by human activity, with Latter-day Saints and white ...