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    Appendix D: Detailed religious affiliation by broader religious affiliation

    Christian Armenian Christian Baptist Catholic Chaldean Christian Coptic Evangelical Christian Greek Orthodox Jehovah Witness Lutheran Mennonite Methodist Old Believer Orthodox Oriental Orthodoxy Pentecostalist Protestant Russian Orthodox Seventh Day Adventist Ukranian Orthodox Ukrainian autocephalous orthodox Ukrainian Orthodox Kyivan Patriarchate Uniate   Muslim Ahmadiyya Moslem Moslem Ismaici Moslem Shiite Moslem Sunni   Other Religions Ancestral Worship Animist […]

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    1. Nationalism, immigration and minorities

    Europe’s religious landscape is changing: The Christian share of the population is declining while the religiously unaffiliated population is increasing. In addition, Muslim populations in Western European countries continue to grow in both absolute and percentage terms due to immigration, relatively high fertility rates, and a relatively young population. Jewish populations, meanwhile, appear to be […]

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    5 facts about Catholics in Europe

    The Catholic Church remains closely tied to Europe. Catholics are the largest religious group in many of the continent’s most populous countries.

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    4. Demographic data

    As use of commercial voter lists by campaigns and public opinion researchers has grown, data offerings provided by voter file vendors have expanded. On top of standard political offerings, many vendors now provide a host of additional demographic and lifestyle data generated through predictive models or gathered from other sources. This chapter compares demographic data […]

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    1. Views of Donald Trump

    The public’s views of Donald Trump across a number of dimensions – including his respect for democratic institutions, trust in what he says and whether he keeps his business interests separate from the decisions he makes as president – tend to have a fairly similar pattern. On most measures (including his overall job rating), roughly […]

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    Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters’ Party Identification

    Survey Report As the 2018 midterm elections approach, women and especially college graduates have moved toward the Democratic Party. By contrast, the Republican Party’s advantage in leaned party identification among white voters without a college degree has never been greater, dating back more than two decades. While partisanship among voters usually does not change much […]

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    Why America’s ‘nones’ don’t identify with a religion

    Six-in-ten religious “nones” in the U.S. say the questioning of religious teachings is a very important reason for their lack of affiliation. The second-most-common reason is opposition to the positions taken by churches on social and political issues.

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    4. Hopeful themes and suggested solutions

    About a third of the experts who responded to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly strengthen core aspects of democracy and democratic representation. This section includes comments about hopes for the future that were made by all respondents, whether or not their answer in this canvassing was that democracy will be strengthened. […]

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