Immigrant status 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 immigrant status

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

Religious denominationImmigrantsSecond generationThird generation or higherSample size
American Baptist Churches USA8%4%87%228
Assemblies of God21%7%71%331
Church of God in Christ17%2%82%108
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints14%4%82%197
Churches of Christ6%4%90%248
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)5%9%86%117
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)5%6%89%471
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod1%5%95%188
National Baptist Convention4%< 1%95%292
Nondenominational charismatic3%13%84%100
Nondenominational evangelical8%12%80%354
Nothing in particular (religion important)23%5%72%422
Southern Baptist Convention1%2%97%1,145
United Methodist Church4%2%94%388
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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