completed – is the single best predictor of religious Religious Knowledge knowledge. College graduates get nearly eight more questions right on average than do people with a high school education or less. Having taken a religion course in college is also strongly associated with higher religious knowledge.
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. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their ...
How do various religious traditions think, write and talk about the goals of educating within those traditions? We do sometimes have the occasion to talk about religious education across the ...
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 ...
When there are religious differences between adults and their 13- to 17-year-old children, however, it’s usually the teens who are less religious than the parents. For instance, far fewer teens (24%) than parents (43%) say that religion is very important in their lives. The survey also asked parents and teens about how important they think religion is in the other person's life, and found ...
Estimates from 2007 and 2014 come from Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Studies, which surveyed roughly 35,000 U.S. adults via telephone each year. All other estimates from 2019 and earlier come from other random-digit-dial telephone surveys, mostly the Center’s political surveys. All data is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity ...