U.S. has changed in key ways in the past decade, from tech use to demographics
Among the changes: Smartphones and social media became the norm, church attendance fell, and same-sex marriage and legalizing marijuana gained support.
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Among the changes: Smartphones and social media became the norm, church attendance fell, and same-sex marriage and legalizing marijuana gained support.
Research has shown that men in the United States are generally less religious than women. And while this pattern holds true among black Americans, black men are still a highly religious group.
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.
Read five facts about Christmas in America and how people celebrate the holiday.
The generation gap between millennials and older adults on social and political issues exists even among evangelical Protestants.
The share of Americans who do not identify with a religious group is surely growing, but there are differing ideas about the factors driving this trend.
About half of U.S. adults tell us they seldom (33%) or never (16%) talk about religion with people outside their family.
We sat down with Michael Hout, a professor of sociology at New York University, to examine possible reasons.
Our new report finds that whether U.S. adults are becoming more or less religious depends, in part, on how religious observance is measured.
Religious “nones” make up 23% of U.S. adults, up from 16% in 2007. And only 27% of those “nones” are absolutely certain about God’s existence, down from 36% in 2007.
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