In U.S., familiarity with religious groups is associated with warmer feelings toward them
Americans who personally know someone in a different religious group are more likely to feel positively about members of that group.
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Americans who personally know someone in a different religious group are more likely to feel positively about members of that group.
Conrad Hackett, associate director for research and senior demographer, discusses why we studied the relationship between religion and happiness, health and civic engagement.
Tuesday is the 210th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Roughly eight-in-ten U.S. adults say humans have evolved over time.
In the United States, 48% of American adults say they are married. A higher-than-average share of adults are married in certain religious groups.
Read five facts about Christmas in America and how people celebrate the holiday.
Many Many Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons and members of some evangelical churches say abortion should be illegal. But among other religious groups, many support legal abortion.
Many married adults point to several factors as bigger keys to a successful marriage than shared religious beliefs.
Members of some religious groups on average have a higher household income than others, and those in the richest groups tend to be highly educated.
Religion has long been entangled in America’s politics and its political campaigns.
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.
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