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Quarterly Update A message from Pew Research Center President Michael Dimock · Subscribe ↗ Greetings, and happy summer! You may have noticed that we’ve published some major studies on religion in recent months, from a comprehensive look at religious diversity in India to rich studies on faith among Black and Jewish Americans. This is part of Pew […]
In the U.S., highly religious adults are much more skeptical about the possibility of extraterrestrial life than those who are less religious.
Despite the caste system’s significance in India, there is no consensus on what proportion of Indians belong to each caste category.
The nationwide incarceration rate is 810 prison or jail inmates for every 100,000 adult residents ages 18 and older.
Around a fifth (21%) of the 198 countries evaluated banned at least one religion-related group in 2019, our analysis found.
Most Black Americans identify as Protestant. And unlike Black Americans in other faith traditions, the majority of Black Protestant churchgoers attend religious services at a house of worship where both the leadership and most other congregants are Black. Defining Black congregations To help analyze survey data, this report splits Black Protestants’ places of worship into […]
Americans are much less likely to say there is discrimination against White people: 40% say White people face at least some discrimination.
Among White Americans, worship service attendance remains highly correlated with presidential vote choice.
In the new survey, the Center attempted for the first time to pose some of these philosophical questions to a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, finding that Americans largely blame random chance – along with people’s own actions and the way society is structured – for human suffering, while relatively few believers blame God or voice doubts about the existence of God for this reason.
The survey finds that most Black Americans who attend religious services go to congregations where most of the other attendees and the senior clergy are Black. At the same time, most Black Americans also indicate, in their answers to other questions in the survey, that they value diversity in their religious congregations. Even among those […]
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