Many Countries Favor Specific Religions, Officially or Unofficially
Islam is the most common state religion, but many governments give privileges to Christianity.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Islam is the most common state religion, but many governments give privileges to Christianity.
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. This report is a collaborative effort based on […]
The Religious Landscape Study and this report were made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support for the project from Lilly Endowment Inc. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Gregory A. Smith, Associate Director of Research Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, Research Associate Alan Cooperman, […]
The Religious Landscape Study and this report were made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support for the project from Lilly Endowment Inc. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Besheer Mohamed, Senior Researcher Gregory A. Smith, Associate Director of Research Alan Cooperman, Director […]
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. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received […]
Religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in a region that was once dominated by atheist communist regimes.
The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by the Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults living in households. Respondents who self-identify as internet users and who provided an email address participate in the panel via monthly self-administered Web surveys, and those who do not use the internet or decline […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted June 15-26, 2016, among a national sample of 2,245 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (559 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 1,686 were interviewed on a cellphone, including 1,067 […]
About half of U.S. adults have looked for a new religious congregation at some point in their lives, most commonly because they have moved.