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Chart courtesy of PRRI Census of American Religion . Jessi Dodge. July 7, 2021 ...
One of the most contentious issues in American religion is the question of sexuality and LGBT rights. It divides denominations. It causes churches to split. For many, the issue is a litmus test ...
For all its prominence today, modern American religion polling actually has a fairly short history. Wuthnow begins his narrative near the turn of the 20th century, when, “as near as anyone could ...
21 Charts That Explain American Values Today. By Bob Cohn. June 27, 2012. ... while freedom of speech and freedom of religion are cited as the top examples of America's superior values compared to ...
A new book explores how religion, once at the core of American higher education, made its way to the margins of campus life.
Let's start with the shift in America's religious attitudes, according to Pew. In brief summary, ... What America will look like in 2050, in 4 charts. April 3, 2015. By Philip Bump.
Despite a decades-long decline in white Christian America, Jones argues that only recently has it reached a tipping point. In 2008, Obama was elected by a nation that, at the time, was still ...
Robert P. Jones is the founding CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). His new book, “The End of White Christian America,” has been called “quite possibly the most ...
WHAT IS a shepherd without a flock? Many of America’s pastors may soon have to answer. In 2014, 3,700 Protestant churches closed, by 2019 that figure was 4,500, according to Lifeway Research, a ...
On Tuesday, Pew released a doozy of a survey on "America's changing religious landscape." The biggest change is the sharp drop in Americans who identify as Christian, from 78.4 percent in 2007 to ...
F OR DECADES America’s fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they were atheists, agnostics or believed in “nothing in particular”. By 2019 ...