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    U.S. Muslims: Americans First?

    That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they consider themselves Muslims first; 28% say they think of themselves first as Americans.

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    Millennial Generation Less Religiously Active than Older Americans

    But Pew Forum Finds Young Adults To BeFairly Traditional in Some Other Ways Washington, D.C.—By some key measures, Americansages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans,according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Forum onReligion & Public Life. Fully one-in-four are unaffiliated with anyparticular faith.The report is part of […]

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    Religion Among the Millennials

    Introduction and Overview MILLENNIALS This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial generation. By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular […]

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    Details About The Statistical Analysis Behind The Quiz

    This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation Your Millennial score is your predicted probability of being in the Millennial age group (currently ages 18-29). A score of 51 or higher means the chances are […]

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    Eyed by Evil

    Fully 16% of Americans believe in the “evil eye” or that certain people can cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen to someone.

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    See Dead People

    Nearly one-in-five Americans say they have seen or been in the presence of ghosts.

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    Briefing on U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy

    The following briefing by Brian J. Grim, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, was presented to the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight on the Pew Forum’s findings on restrictions on religion around the world. Good morning. I would like to begin by […]

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    Introduction: Why study mobile phones?

    Introduction and background Wireless communication has emerged as one of the fastest diffusing mediums on the planet, fueling an emergent “mobile youth culture”[6.numoffset=”6” Castells, M., Fernandez-Ardevol, M., Qiu, J., & Sey, A. (2007). Mobile communication and society: A global perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.] that speaks as much with thumbs as it does with tongues. […]

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    Social Hostilities Index (SHI)

    Restrictions on religion can result not only from the actions of governments but also from acts of violence and intimidation by private individuals, organizations or social groups. The Pew Forum’s Social Hostilities Index is a measure of concrete, hostile actions that effectively hinder the religious activities of the targeted individuals or groups. An absence of […]

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    Government Restrictions Index (GRI)

    The Government Restrictions Index is based on 20 questions used by the Pew Forum to assess whether governments – including at the local or provincial level – restrict religious practices or beliefs. The questions are intended to gauge the extent to which governments try to control religious groups or individuals, prohibit conversions from one faith […]