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Sep 13, 2022 · At the same time, having no religious affiliation has become “stickier”: A declining percentage of people raised without a religion have converted or taken on a religion later in life. While religious switching is the focus of this report, other demographic forces that can cause religious change – transmission, migration, fertility and mortality – will be briefly discussed in the ...
- Reem Nadeem
Mar 27, 2024 · While many Americans identify with the religion in which they were raised, others choose different religious paths as adults for a variety of reasons, including marriage into a new faith tradition, relocation to a new area, or a change in theological views. This “religious churning” is very common in the United States.
Sep 13, 2022 · While the change in affiliation rates in the United States is largely due to people voluntarily leaving religion behind, switching is not the only driver of religious composition change worldwide. For example, differences in fertility rates explain most of the recent religious change in India , while migration has altered the religious composition of many European countries in the last century.
- Reem Nadeem
Jul 3, 2024 · As of 2022, Muslims were identified as the most likely religious group to be aged between 18 to 24 years old in the U.S., while White Evangelicals and Catholics were least likely to identify with ...
Oct 17, 2019 · 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 ...
Sep 17, 2024 · “Religious nones are currently one of the largest religious groups in the United States. They trail Protestants, who make up 41% of U.S. adults, but make up a larger share of the population than Catholics (20%) and all other faiths (8%),” wrote Jenn Hatfield, a writer and editor for Pew, in the list of key changes.
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Feb 7, 2023 · In all the scenarios, Christianity’s share of the U.S. population declines. “Depending on whether religious switching continues at recent rates, speeds up, or stops entirely,” the report says, the Center’s projections show Christians shrinking from 64% of Americans of all ages in 2020 to between 54% and 35% by 2070.
