Around 4 in 10 Americans have become more spiritual over time; fewer have become more religious
Most Americans are spiritual or religious in some way and many also say their spirituality and level of religiosity have changed over time.
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Most Americans are spiritual or religious in some way and many also say their spirituality and level of religiosity have changed over time.
Most say Francis represents change in the church. And many say the church should allow priests to marry and let Catholics use birth control.
More than eight-in-ten people who say the U.S. should be a Christian nation (86%) are themselves Christian.
There has been a jump in the share of U.S. adults who see the Supreme Court as “friendly” toward religion.
71% of Hispanic Catholics see climate change as an extremely or very serious problem, compared with 49% of White, non-Hispanic Catholics.
During the pandemic, a stable share of U.S. adults have been participating in religious services in some way – either virtually or in person – but in-person attendance is slightly lower than it was before COVID-19. Among Americans surveyed across several years, the vast majority described their attendance habits in roughly the same way in both 2019 and 2022.
Seven-in-ten Muslim Americans say they think discrimination against Muslims has risen in the United States since the Israel-Hamas war began.
Among religious groups, White evangelical Protestants continue to have the most positive opinion of Trump.
The U.S. abortion rate has generally declined since the 1980s, but there have been slight upticks in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
U.S. adults disagree over whether legal restrictions on abortion are an effective way to reduce the number of abortions in the U.S.
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