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 ...
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 States is not so simple.
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 ...
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
When there are religious differences between adults and their 13- to 17-year-old children, however, it’s usually the teens who are less religious than the parents. For instance, far fewer teens (24%) than parents (43%) say that religion is very important in their lives. The survey also asked parents and teens about how important they think religion is in the other person's life, and found ...