In 2020, properties in 102 countries and territories were targeted in incidents tied to religion
In 2020, properties in 102 of the 198 countries and territories in the study were targeted in incidents tied to religion.
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In 2020, properties in 102 of the 198 countries and territories in the study were targeted in incidents tied to religion.
Highly religious Americans are much more likely to see society in those terms, while nonreligious people tend to see more ambiguity.
Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, even as their share among Latino adults has steadily declined over the past decade. The share of Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated is now on par with U.S. adults overall.
U.S. adults who are affiliated with a religion are less likely than religiously unaffiliated adults to support broadly legal marijuana.
The U.S. Muslim population has grown in the decades since 9/11, but views toward them have become increasingly polarized along political lines.
Overall, 70% of U.S. adults describe themselves as spiritual in some way, including 22% who are spiritual but not religious. An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (83%) say they believe that people have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical body. And 81% say there is something spiritual beyond the natural world, even if we cannot see it.
Most U.S. adults do not believe that requests for religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine are sincere.
How do Republicans who support legal abortion and Democrats who oppose it differ from their fellow partisans? One difference involves religion.
The vast majority of religiously unaffiliated Black Americans believe in God and about half pray regularly, although few attend services.
In the U.S., highly religious adults are much more skeptical about the possibility of extraterrestrial life than those who are less religious.
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