4. Spiritual and religious practices
Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by country.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by country.
In the year since Hamas attacked Israel, and Israel responded by invading Gaza, U.S. public opinion on the war shifted modestly.
Israelis’ views of Netanyahu, Gantz and Lapid lean negative, and they have especially unfavorable views of Palestinian leaders.
Jews are more likely than other major religious groups to live outside their country of birth, yet they account for just 1% of all global migrants.
56% of Israelis say their people are committed to lasting peace, but fewer say this of the Palestinian people or the leaders on either side.
This section describes the methods used to estimate religious composition at the country level, regionally and globally; our procedures for measuring religious groups’ demographic characteristics and their religious “switching” rates; as well as methodological challenges that we considered in some countries. The final section lists the 201 countries and territories that make up each of […]
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed.
In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses.
The shares of Israelis who see very strong conflicts in their society have shrunk, but public opinion has grown more polarized in other ways.
This report was produced by Pew Research Center as part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. Funding for the Global Religious Futures project comes from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation (grant 62287). Find related reports online at https://www.pewresearch.org/globalreligiousfutures. This […]
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