Gender composition among who believe in Hell by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who believe in Hell by gender

% of who believe in Hell who are…

Religious denominationMenWomenSample size
American Baptist Churches USA40%60%370
Assemblies of God43%57%409
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)42%58%103
Church of God in Christ46%54%153
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints45%55%367
Churches of Christ41%59%415
Episcopal Church48%52%181
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)46%54%364
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)47%53%699
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)44%56%148
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod47%53%339
National Baptist Convention42%58%400
Nondenominational charismatic39%61%150
Nondenominational evangelical49%51%561
Nothing in particular (religion important)53%47%1,019
Nothing in particular (religion not important)51%49%530
Presbyterian Church (USA)49%51%209
Southern Baptist Convention49%51%1,594
United Methodist Church45%55%1,004
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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