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    1. Views of the Israel-Hamas war

    Very few Americans (5%) say that the way Hamas carried out its Oct. 7 attack against Israel was acceptable, but a somewhat larger share (22%) view Hamas’ reasons for fighting Israel as valid. Responding to a parallel set of questions about Israel, most Americans (58%) describe Israel’s reasons for fighting Hamas as valid, but the […]

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    2. Views on the afterlife

    Majorities of U.S. adults say they believe in heaven, hell Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults say they believe in heaven. (The survey did not immediately offer a definition of heaven, though subsequent questions explored what respondents think heaven is like.) Large majorities of all Christian subgroups say they believe in heaven, while belief is much […]

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    Faith on the Hill

    While there has been a decades-long decline in the Christian share of U.S. adults, 88% of the voting members in the new 118th Congress identify as Christian. That is only a few points lower than their share in the late 1970s.

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    1. Views on human suffering and God’s role in it

    How often do Americans ponder why bad things happen to people? The survey asked Americans, in light of the coronavirus outbreak and other recent tragedies, how often in the past year they have thought about big questions such as the meaning of life, whether there is any purpose to suffering and why terrible things happen […]

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    2. The experiences of adults in multigenerational households

    There are a variety of reasons why adults live in multigenerational households, but financial considerations top the list.[3. numoffset=”3″ For the remainder of this report, “adults” refers to those ages 25 and older who live with a parent or grandparent or who live with an adult child or grandchild age 25 or older.] Many also […]

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    Measuring Religion in China

    Only one-in-ten Chinese adults formally identify with a religion, but surveys indicate that religion plays a much bigger role in China when the definition is widened to include questions on spirituality, customs and traditional beliefs.

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    2. The political content in users’ tweets and the accounts they follow

    In addition to surveying users about their experiences on Twitter, researchers from the Center also examined the actual on-site behaviors of a subset of users from this representative panel of U.S. adults who provided their Twitter handles for research purposes. This analysis involved two separate data collections and analyses. First, researchers collected every public tweet posted […]

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