Pew studies and analyzes issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs by conducting surveys, demographic analyses, and other research about the practice of religion and its place in American life.
Recent work includes a major portrait of Jews in America and interviews with 38,000 Muslims around the globe to provide a more complete understanding of the beliefs and political views of members of the world’s second- largest religion.
Recent Work
During the pandemic, a stable share of U.S. adults have been participating in religious services in some way – either virtually or in person – but in-person attendance is slightly lower than it was before COVID-19. Among Americans surveyed across several years, the vast majority described their attendance habits in roughly the same way in both 2019 and 2022.
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Incidents against Jewish people in 2020 ranged from verbal and physical assaults to vandalism of cemeteries and scapegoating for the pandemic.
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Most U.S. adults are neutral toward several religious groups, though Americans tend to rate their own religious group positively. More than a third of Americans hold unfavorable views of multiple religious groups.
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Not all U.S. Catholics share the pope's concerns on climate change; their views vary by political affiliation, race and ethnicity, and age.
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About a third of U.S. parents with children under 18 say it’s extremely or very important to them that their kids share their religious beliefs.
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Religiously unaffiliated people were harassed by governments, private groups or both in 27 countries in 2020.
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Here is a look at data on the number of legal abortions and other related measures that take place in the United States each year.
The post What the data says about abortion in the U.S. appeared first on Pew Research Center.
While there has been a decades-long decline in the Christian share of U.S. adults, 88% of the voting members in the new 118th Congress identify as Christian. That is only a few points lower than their share in the late 1970s.
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