Gender composition among adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally by gender

% of adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally who are…

Religious denominationMenWomenSample size
American Baptist Churches USA39%61%233
Assemblies of God40%60%336
Church of God in Christ48%52%110
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints39%61%201
Churches of Christ35%65%249
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)33%67%118
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)49%51%473
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod43%57%190
National Baptist Convention41%59%301
Nondenominational charismatic30%70%101
Nondenominational evangelical44%56%359
Nothing in particular (religion important)48%52%436
Southern Baptist Convention46%54%1,157
United Methodist Church40%60%393
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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