Interpreting scripture among third generation immigrants or higher by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among third generation immigrants or higher by interpretation of scripture
% of third generation immigrants or higher 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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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 56% | 22% | 4% | 13% | 5% | 109 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 52% | 27% | 4% | 12% | 5% | 405 |
Assemblies of God | 71% | 20% | 2% | 4% | 3% | 352 |
Church of God in Christ | 69% | 26% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 135 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 30% | 56% | 5% | 6% | 3% | 555 |
Churches of Christ | 50% | 33% | 4% | 9% | 4% | 436 |
Episcopal Church | 9% | 33% | 1% | 48% | 9% | 424 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 19% | 44% | 2% | 29% | 7% | 575 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 54% | 28% | 3% | 11% | 4% | 734 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 48% | 37% | 3% | 7% | 5% | 179 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 10% | 34% | 1% | 34% | 22% | 116 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 41% | 41% | 4% | 10% | 4% | 409 |
National Baptist Convention | 63% | 22% | 2% | 7% | 6% | 431 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 52% | 35% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 161 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 52% | 36% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 563 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 24% | 25% | 2% | 39% | 10% | 1,525 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 4% | 9% | 1% | 79% | 8% | 2,266 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 22% | 41% | 3% | 26% | 8% | 377 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 36% | 39% | 6% | 12% | 6% | 138 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 61% | 23% | 4% | 8% | 3% | 1,754 |
Spiritual but not religious | 5% | 14% | < 1% | 64% | 17% | 106 |
Unitarian | 1% | 4% | < 1% | 85% | 10% | 135 |
United Church of Christ | 12% | 33% | 1% | 41% | 14% | 195 |
United Methodist Church | 28% | 41% | 3% | 20% | 8% | 1,504 |
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