About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.
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Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.
Just about a third of Indian adults (35%) say they ever practice yoga, including 22% who say they do so monthly or less.
Hindus were the religious group most likely to say they voted for the BJP in India’s most recent parliamentary election.
Highly religious Americans are much more likely to see society in those terms, while nonreligious people tend to see more ambiguity.
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
Churches and other houses of worship increasingly are holding services the way they did before the COVID-19 outbreak began.
A new analysis of survey data finds that there has been no large-scale departure from evangelicalism among White Americans.
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.
Majorities say scientific research on gene editing is a misuse – rather than an appropriate use – of technology. But public acceptance of gene editing for babies depends on how it will be used, and views often differ by age and religion.
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