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Most people who switch religions do not join another tradition; they leave religion altogether. Christians and Buddhists are ...
The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. ... That percentage has now dropped to 16% attending weekly and 13% saying they attend "a few times a year." ...
Pew reports that 63 percent of American adults identify as Christian — but that’s down from 78 percent in 2007. And in that same period the percentage of adults who say they have no religion ...
The share of Asian American Christians dropped the most dramatically, from 42% in 2012 to 34% now. Buddhism is also down by 3 percentage points, while Hinduism and Islam have risen slightly, going ...
Over the past half-century, as the number of Americans with no religious affiliation has gone from 5 percent to nearly 30 percent, the emphasis has often been on what they were leaving. A report ...
In 2023, only 39 percent of respondents said religion was very important to them, compared to 62 percent who said that in 1998. When you look at the full results , the picture becomes a bit more ...
An extensive new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that only 16 percent of Americans say religion is the most important thing in their lives. A decade ago, 20 percent ...
A newly released report shows that the American public has mixed feelings about integrating religion into multiple aspects of ...
More Americans said they see an increased influence from religion in the U.S., according to a new Gallup poll. The Wednesday poll found that 34 percent of respondents said they believe “religion as a ...
Patriotism, religion, and community involvement are declining in the US, with recent surveys showing significant drops in the ...
Story at a glance Nearly a third of Americans in a recent Associated Press-NORC poll said they have no religious affiliation. The recent poll, taken between May 11 and 15 of this year, found 30 ...
About 34 percent of Gen Z respondents, born between 1997 and 2006, and 30 percent of millennial respondents, born between 1981 and 1996, said they are not religious. Meanwhile, just 8.5 percent of ...