Key findings about the religious composition of India
Religious pluralism has long been a core value in India. A new report shows that India’s religious composition has been fairly stable since 1951.
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Religious pluralism has long been a core value in India. A new report shows that India’s religious composition has been fairly stable since 1951.
Among religious groups, White evangelical Protestants continue to have the most positive opinion of Trump.
The U.S. Muslim population has grown in the decades since 9/11, but views toward them have become increasingly polarized along political lines.
Most parents pass along religious and political affiliations, and they do so at similarly high rates, according to a new analysis of several surveys.
Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favor traditional gender roles in family life.
All major religious groups in India have shown sharp declines in their fertility rates, limiting change in the country’s religious composition since 1951. Meanwhile, fertility differences between India’s religious groups are generally much smaller than they used to be.
Most Americans say religion’s influence is shrinking, and about half (48%) see conflict between their own religious beliefs and mainstream American culture.
Women continue to be less involved than men in mosque life in the U.S., but the pattern appears to be changing.
58% of U.S. adults say they do not believe “we are living in the end times” – the destruction of the world as we know it.
Social hostilities around the world involving religion declined in 2019 to the lowest level in five years.
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