5 facts about the religious lives of African Americans
Religion, particularly Christianity, has played an outsize role in African American history. For Black History Month, here are five facts about the religious lives of African Americans.
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Religion, particularly Christianity, has played an outsize role in African American history. For Black History Month, here are five facts about the religious lives of African Americans.
Substantial shares of Americans of nearly all religious groups – as well as those who have no religious affiliation – say they meditate at least once a week.
The phrase “spiritual but not religious” has become widely used in recent years by some Americans who are trying to describe their religious identity.
We sat down with Michael Hout, a professor of sociology at New York University, to examine possible reasons.
Tens of millions of Latin Americans have left the Roman Catholic Church in recent decades and embraced Pentecostal Christianity.
Only 11% of American congregations were led by women in 2012, according to press reports of an upcoming National Congregations Study survey. That figure hasn’t changed since 1998.
Most U.S. adults believe Jesus was born of a virgin, including one-third of Americans with no specific religious affiliation.
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