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 ...
Estimates from 2007 and 2014 come from Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Studies, which surveyed roughly 35,000 U.S. adults via telephone each year. All other estimates from 2019 and earlier come from other random-digit-dial telephone surveys, mostly the Center’s political surveys. All data is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity ...
PEW RESEARCH CENTER 2014 RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE STUDY (RLS-II) FINAL TOPLINE June 4- N=35,071 Note: figures may not sum to 100, and nested figures may not sum to subtotals indicated, due to rounding. Some questions held for future release.
The Landscape Survey confirms that the United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country; the number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51%.
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their ...
entify with any religion. For details on the religious composition of the U.S., see Pew Research Center’s 2014 eligious Landscape Study. Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims make up much larger shares of the global population th 3 According to Pew Research Center estimates, Jews make up about 2% of the U.S. adult population and Muslims make up 1%.