Funding for the 2014 Religious Landscape Study comes from The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received generous support for the project from Lilly Endowment Inc. While the analysis was guided by our consultations with the advisers, the Pew Research Center is solely responsible for the interpretation and reporting of the data.
The Landscape Survey confirms the close link between Americans’ religious affiliation, beliefs and practices, on the one hand, and their social and political attitudes, on the other. Indeed, the survey demonstrates that the social and political fault lines in American society run through, as well as alongside, religious traditions.
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 ...
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.
PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE STUDY (RLS) FINAL TOPLINE May 8 – August 13, 2007 N=35,556 Note: figures may not sum to 100, and nested figures may not sum to subtotals indicated, due to rounding
Note: The “Protestant” figures from the Religious Landscape Studies may differ slightly from previously published reports because they include Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Scientists so as to make the “Protestant” category as similar as possible to the aggregated political surveys. In the Religious Landscape Study reports, Jehovah’s Witnesses are categorized as a separate ...
The Changing Global Religious Landscape Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035; people with no religion face a birth dearth More babies were born to Christian mothers than to members of any other religion in recent years, reflecting Christianity’s continued status as the world’s largest religious group.
PEW RESEARCH CENTER 2014 RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE STUDY (RLS-II) FINAL TOPLINE June 4-September 30, 2014 N=35,071 Note: figures may not sum to 100, and nested figures may not sum to subtotals indicated, due to rounding. Some questions held for future release.
The 2014 Religious Landscape Study is a follow-up to an equally extensive survey on religion in America, conducted in 2007. An initial report on the findings from the 2014 study, released in May 2015, described the changing size and demographic characteristics of the nation’s major religious groups. This report focuses on Americans’ religious beliefs and practices and assesses how they ...
Acknowledgments 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
