Religious ‘switching’ patterns will help determine Christianity’s course in U.S.
Whether the U.S. will continue to have a Christian majority in 2070 will depend on many factors, including religious “switching.”
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Whether the U.S. will continue to have a Christian majority in 2070 will depend on many factors, including religious “switching.”
Religious pluralism has long been a core value in India. A new report shows that India’s religious composition has been fairly stable since 1951.
A new analysis of survey data finds that there has been no large-scale departure from evangelicalism among White Americans.
Today, there are millions of Christians in India, although they make up just 2.4% of the country’s massive population.
Weekly Mass-goers and Catholic Republicans express higher levels of disapproval of the pope’s new restrictions.
By 2060, more than four-in-ten Christians and 27% of Muslims around the world will call sub-Saharan Africa home.
While the world’s population is projected to grow 32% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 70% – from 1.8 billion in 2015 to nearly 3 billion in 2060.
The U.S. religious landscape is already in the midst of some dramatic changes when it comes to the growth or decline of people with certain religious identities. And while it is impossible to predict exactly how that landscape will shift in the future, some key demographic factors — particularly age — can provide a clue as to how things might unfold in the coming decades.
It’s a fascinating time for conversations about faith in the United States, with Pope Francis set to visit, a presidential election on the horizon and major trends reshaping the country’s religious landscape.
If current demographic trends hold, by 2050, Muslims are projected to be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.
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