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Jeff Diamant

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Jeff Diamant is a senior writer/editor at Pew Research Center, focusing on religion. He has worked on reports about the faith of Black Americans, Muslim Americans and Europeans. He has a doctorate in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, was a fellow in the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in political science and international studies. Prior to joining the Center, he also worked as a journalist for newspapers including the Newark Star-Ledger and the Charlotte Observer.

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short readsJun 18, 2020

Three-in-ten or more Democrats and Republicans don’t agree with their party on abortion

When it comes to abortion, members of Congress are starkly divided by party. Yet the partisan divide among Americans themselves is less stark.
short readsApr 16, 2020

Americans in both parties want an ethical president, but Democrats more likely to say that’s ‘very important’

Roughly nine-in-ten or more U.S. adults say it is either somewhat or very important to have a president who lives a moral, ethical life.
short readsJan 21, 2020

Do state laws on abortion reflect public opinion?

Majorities in four of the seven states that enacted strict new abortion laws in 2019 say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
short readsDec 10, 2019

Teens in the South more likely than other U.S. teens to experience religion in public school

Teens in the South express their religion in school more often than teens in other parts of the United States.
short readsJul 29, 2019

Europe experienced a surge in government restrictions on religious activity over the last decade

In addition to government actions, there also was a dramatic increase in Europe in some measures of social hostility to religion.
short readsMay 1, 2019

With high levels of prayer, U.S. is an outlier among wealthy nations

When compared with other wealthy nations, the U.S. is unique in that a large share of its population prays every day.
short readsApr 1, 2019

The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations

The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.
short readsMar 13, 2019

Negative stereotypes about Jews are largely rejected in France

Reports of anti-Semitic incidents in France rose dramatically in 2018. Yet most French adults do not believe negative Jewish stereotypes and are accepting of Jews.
short readsJan 17, 2019

Black Muslims account for a fifth of all U.S. Muslims, and about half are converts to Islam

About half of black Muslims are converts to Islam, a relatively high conversion level. Black Muslims, like black Americans overall, have high levels of religious commitment.
short readsDec 4, 2018

Views of national identity differ less by age in Central, Eastern Europe than in Western Europe

Central and Eastern Europeans of different ages are about equally likely to say that Christianity, birthplace and ancestry are important to national identity.