Why Pew Research Center typically can’t report the views of smaller U.S. religious groups
While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
About six-in-ten U.S. adults say only some (43%) or hardly any or none (18%) of their friends have the same religion they do.
Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants
Evangelical Protestant adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem.
17% of U.S. adults have unfollowed, unfriended, blocked or changed their settings to see less of someone on social media because of religious content the person posted or shared.
Americans increasingly say gender is determined by one’s sex assigned at birth, but they differ by religion on this and other transgender issues.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
Some 17% of U.S. adults regularly attend religious services in person and watch them online or on TV.
Here are key findings from our research on the relationship between religion and government in the U.S. and Americans’ views on the issue.
More than eight-in-ten people who say the U.S. should be a Christian nation (86%) are themselves Christian.
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