Three-quarters of Black Americans say Black churches have helped promote racial equality
Majorities of Black adults say predominantly Black churches have done at least some to help Black Americans.
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Majorities of Black adults say predominantly Black churches have done at least some to help Black Americans.
We’ve distilled key findings from our data into four email mini-lessons to help people develop a better understanding of Muslims and Islam.
More than half of U.S. adults name the pope (47%) or a specific pope (7%) when asked who comes to mind when they think of Catholicism.
Many Americans say that religion is very important in their lives. But how much do people in the U.S. actually know about their faith tradition – or about religions besides their own? A new report from Pew Research Center tries to answer this question by asking U.S. adults 32 fact-based questions about a variety of […]
Teens in the South express their religion in school more often than teens in other parts of the United States.
U.S. Jews have relatively high levels of religious knowledge. But other Americans are unable to answer some basic questions about Jewish practices.
Atheists and agnostics know more about religion than most other religious groups, while those with no particular religion are among the least knowledgeable.
Americans who personally know someone in a different religious group are more likely to feel positively about members of that group.
Globally, Muslims live in the biggest households, followed by Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated.
About half of black Muslims are converts to Islam, a relatively high conversion level. Black Muslims, like black Americans overall, have high levels of religious commitment.
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