Religion News Service: What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy
What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy
The Conversation: Regulating Islamic education can strengthen trust and authority, if religious scholars lead the way
Regulating Islamic education can strengthen trust and authority, if religious scholars lead the way
The Conversation: What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy
National Catholic Reporter: What America’s history can teach us about debates on religious freedom and its importance for democracy
(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.
Alan Jacobs clarifies centuries of debate over John Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall. Christian life is rooted in a story with a specific plot. It begins with God’s creation of the world, builds ...
The latest release of the Landscape Survey includes a wealth of information on the religious beliefs and practices of the American public, including the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in God and the afterlife, attitudes toward the authority of sacred writings, frequency of worship attendance and prayer, and participation in religious activities outside of worship services ...
Whereas indicators of religious identity and frequency of prayer produced by self-administered surveys (like the NPORS) can be directly compared with estimates produced by interviewer-administered surveys (like the Center’s earlier telephone surveys), self-administered surveys may produce slightly lower estimates of religion’s importance ...
The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity ”) that focused on the survey’s findings about religious beliefs and practices. It showed that while there is much c ommonality of belief among Muslims around the globe on some key tenets of their faith, there also are substantial differences in interpretation and levels of observance.
In recent decades, much high-quality research has been done on the religious makeup of the United States and on the way religion relates to politics and public life. Nevertheless, there are still major gaps in our knowledge of the American religious landscape. For instance, estimates of the size of religious communities in the U.S. – especially the smaller groups – are often contested ...
It also featured several queries about religion that the Center has long asked in its RDD and ATP surveys, including questions about religious affiliation (such as Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, atheist and others), frequency of attendance at religious services, frequency of prayer, and the importance of religion in respondents’ lives.
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade.
Figures for U.S. adults based on aggregated Pew Research Center political surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019. Figures for Protestant subgroups and Unitarians come from Pew Research Center’s 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014. “Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 117th Congress
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.
How we did this This Pew Research Center study describes the religious makeup of India’s population, how it changed between 1951 and 2011, and the main causes of the change. The analysis focuses on India’s three largest religious groups – Hindus, Muslims and Christians – and also covers Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains when suitable data is available.
Factors in Religious Knowledge What factors seem to contribute to religious knowledge? Data from the survey indicate that educational Education Linked attainment – how much schooling an individual has With Greater completed – is the single best predictor of religious Religious Knowledge knowledge.
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