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.”
Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, even as their share among Latino adults has steadily declined over the past decade. The share of Latinos who are religiously unaffiliated is now on par with U.S. adults overall.
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.
Most Black Catholic churchgoers are racial minorities in their congregations, unlike White and Hispanic Catholics – and Black Protestants
The American Jewish population, like other religious groups, is in flux. Still, 88% of U.S. adults who were raised Jewish are still Jewish.
Today, there are millions of Christians in India, although they make up just 2.4% of the country’s massive population.
Our new survey of 29,999 Indian adults takes a closer look at religious identity, nationalism and tolerance in Indian society.
Most parents pass along religious and political affiliations, and they do so at similarly high rates, according to a new analysis of several surveys.
While there has been a decades-long decline in the Christian share of U.S. adults, 88% of the voting members in the new 118th Congress identify as Christian. That is only a few points lower than their share in the late 1970s.
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