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Apr 12, 2016 · A new Pew Research Center study of the ways religion influences the daily lives of Americans finds that people who are highly religious are more engaged with their extended families, more likely to volunteer, more involved in their communities and generally happier with the way things are going in their lives.
- Acknowledgments
Religion in Everyday Life; 1. Highly religious people not...
- Methodology
This report is based on results from two surveys – a...
- 1. Religion’s role in public life
Majorities in every religious group we analyzed agree that...
- Acknowledgments
Nov 15, 2019 · A new Pew Research Center survey issued Nov. 15 gauges the influence religion has on Americans' lives and the hold Catholicism and other Christian religions has on their adherents.
- Mark Pattison
Mar 15, 2024 · Majorities in every religious group we analyzed agree that religion’s influence in public life is shrinking, as do most Republicans and Democrats, and most across age groups. Just 18% of U.S. adults say religion is gaining influence.
- Reem Nadeem
Campbell and Putnam discovered, for example, that one-third to one-half of U.S. marriages are interfaith, one-third of Americans have switched religious traditions during their life, and even fervent evangelicals believe that people of other religions can go to heaven.
- Introduction
- Religion and Happiness
- Religion and Family Stability
- Religion and Physical Health
- Religion and Social Breakdown
- Understanding "Intrinsic" and "Extrinsic" Religious Behavior
- Religion and The Social Sciences
- Policy Implications
- Conclusion
By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to American life.The time is ripe for a deeper dialogue on the contribution of religion to the welfare of the nation. America has always been a religious country. "Its first Christian inhabitants were only too anxious...
Ever since Aristotle outlined the goal of a sound civil order in his Politics, social and political scientists and social psychologists have been particularly interested in what makes human beings happy. Happy people tend to be productive and law-abiding. They learn well, make good citizens, and are invariably pleasant company. It turns out that th...
There is a growing consensus that America needs to pursue policies aimed at re-strengthening the family. The beneficial effects of religious worship on family stability clearly indicate one way to help accomplish this. Professors Darwin L. Thomas and Gwendolyn C. Henry of Brigham Young University's Department of Sociology sum up earlier research on...
In public health circles, the level of educational attainment is held to be the key demographic predictor of physical health. For over two decades, however, the level of religious practice has been shown convincingly to be equally important. As early as 1972, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health found that cardiovas...
The practice of religion has beneficial effects on behavior and social relations: on illegitimacy, crime and delinquency, welfare dependency, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, depression, and general self-esteem. Illegitimacy One of the most powerful of all factors in preventing out-of-wedlock births is the regular practice of religious belief. Give...
Recent advances in the investigation of religious behavior have led social scientists to distinguish between two distinct categories or orientations: "intrinsic" and "extrinsic." Intrinsic practice is God-oriented and based on beliefs which transcend the person's own existence. Research shows this form of religious practice to be beneficial. Extrin...
There is a tension between practitioners of social science and religious belief.Darwin L. Thomas and Gwendolyn C. Henry, professors of sociology at Brigham Young University, write: "From the work of Freud and others, much of the early history of the social sciences is characterized by the expectation that involvement in and reliance upon the religi...
The evidence indicates strongly that it is a good social policy to foster the widespread practice of religion. It is bad social policy to block it. The widespread practice of religious beliefs is one of America's greatest national resources. It strengthens individuals, families, communities, and society as a whole. It significantly affects educatio...
The available evidence clearly demonstrates that regular religious practice is both an individual and social good. It is a powerful answer to many of our most significant social problems, some of which, including out-of-wedlock births, have reached catastrophic proportions. Furthermore, it is available to all, and at no cost. America is at a crossr...
Mar 31, 2024 · In a new survey released by the Pew Research Center, 80 percent of respondents said religion’s role in public life is shrinking in America. That’s the highest proportion in two decades of...
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May 16, 2023 · Just 16% of Americans surveyed said religion is the most important thing in their lives, according to the PRRI study, down from 20% a decade ago. Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion...
