Interpreting scripture among adults who meditate at least once a week by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who meditate at least once a week by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who meditate at least once a week who say the holy scripture is…
Religious denomination | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 59% | 20% | 5% | 10% | 6% | 211 |
Assemblies of God | 75% | 17% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 285 |
Church of God in Christ | 72% | 20% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 109 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 34% | 54% | 6% | 4% | 2% | 399 |
Churches of Christ | 51% | 33% | 4% | 8% | 4% | 223 |
Episcopal Church | 11% | 29% | 2% | 47% | 12% | 207 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 28% | 37% | 3% | 21% | 10% | 243 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 65% | 21% | 3% | 6% | 4% | 362 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 46% | 36% | 5% | 9% | 4% | 104 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 54% | 29% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 211 |
National Baptist Convention | 67% | 23% | 2% | 6% | 2% | 304 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 61% | 27% | 9% | 3% | < 1% | 114 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 63% | 27% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 354 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 27% | 22% | 3% | 37% | 10% | 729 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 6% | 6% | < 1% | 80% | 8% | 704 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 29% | 38% | 3% | 20% | 10% | 188 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 54% | 30% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 106 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 67% | 20% | 3% | 7% | 3% | 932 |
United Church of Christ | 16% | 34% | 1% | 33% | 17% | 104 |
United Methodist Church | 34% | 37% | 4% | 16% | 8% | 709 |
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