How the faithful voted: A preliminary 2016 analysis
The 2016 presidential exit polling reveals little change in the political alignments of U.S. religious groups.
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The 2016 presidential exit polling reveals little change in the political alignments of U.S. religious groups.
There is no clear consensus among the Israeli public over whether settlements help the country’s security.
There has long been a consensus that churches should not endorse specific candidates for public office, and a current law known as the Johnson Amendment prohibits them from involvement in political campaigns.
Among voters who attend religious services at least once a month, relatively few say election information was made available to them in their places of worship.
Our new survey focusing on contraception, same-sex marriage and transgender rights finds the public closely divided over some – though not all – of these issues.
As Donald Trump has racked up big wins among self-described “born-again or evangelical” Christians in many of the early primaries, some religious leaders, political analysts and researchers have questioned whether many of these self-described evangelicals actually are evangelical Christians.
A new gene-editing method called CRISPR exemplifies how the technology is rapidly becoming a present-day reality. Yet, Americans are wary of editing embryos, according to a survey on the broader field of “human enhancement.”
Israeli Muslims actually place less emphasis on religion and some of the key pillars of their faith than do Muslims in neighboring countries.
Evangelicals and churchgoing Republicans were initially skeptical of Trump, but their support for him has now firmed up.
Americans and Europeans often have different perspectives on individualism, the role of government, free expression, religion and morality.
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