5 facts about the religious lives of African Americans
Religion, particularly Christianity, has played an outsize role in African American history. For Black History Month, here are five facts about the religious lives of African Americans.
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Religion, particularly Christianity, has played an outsize role in African American history. For Black History Month, here are five facts about the religious lives of African Americans.
Nearly eight-in-ten black Americans identify as Christian, compared with 70% of whites, 77% of Latinos and just 34% of Asian Americans.
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While many, especially in the U.S., may associate Islam with the Middle East or North Africa, nearly two-thirds of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region.
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.
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.
There are only about 6 million Jews living in Israel, but there are major religious, social and political chasms that divide them.
We sat down with Michael Hout, a professor of sociology at New York University, to examine possible reasons.
The phrase “spiritual but not religious” has become widely used in recent years by some Americans who are trying to describe their religious identity.
Religion and science have often been seen as being in conflict. But are religious faith and the scientific enterprise really at odds with each other?
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