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- 2. Religious switching
- Catholicism has lost 8.4 people for every person it has gained through ‘religious switching’ in the U.S.
- More Americans say their spirituality has increased than decreased over their lifetimes
- Most Americans who are currently religiously unaffiliated were not raised that way
- Several Protestant denominational families have lost more adherents than they’ve gained through ‘religious switching’
- Upward of 75% of Americans who were raised as Hindu, Muslim or Jewish still identify with the same religious group as adults
- 54% of Americans who were raised Baptist are still Baptist as adults
- 28% of Americans say they’ve grown more religious over their lives; 29% say they’ve grown less religious
- 43% of Americans say they’ve become more spiritual over their lives; 11% say they’ve become less spiritual