Religious โNonesโ in America: Who They Are and What They Believe
28% of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or โnothing in particularโ when asked about their religion.
28% of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or โnothing in particularโ when asked about their religion.
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Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s ban on religion, some 6% of party members formally identify with a religion.
Only one-in-ten Chinese adults formally identify with a religion, but surveys indicate that religion plays a much bigger role in China when the definition is widened to include questions on spirituality, customs and traditional beliefs.
The Global Religious Futures (GRF) project is jointly funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and The John Templeton Foundation. Here are some big-picture findings from the GRF, together with context from other Pew Research Center studies.
Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or โnothing in particular.โ If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades.
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