Muriel Kane at The Raw Story reports on a Gallup poll released on Christmas Eve with some new numbers about the shape of religion in the United States today:
Only 78% of Americans now identify as Christian, while 22% describe their religious preference as either “other” or “none.”
Most of these changes have occurred since 2000 and represent the first significant shift since a sharp decline in religious adherence during the 1970s. Over the last nine years, the number with no religious preference has grown from a level of around 8% to 13%. The number for whom religion is not very important has climbed from just over 10% to 19%. And the number who believe religion is out of date and has no answers for today’s problems has jumped from slightly more than 20% to 29%.
These changes do not appear to have affected the majority of Americans who still consider religion “very important” in their own lives. That figure remains at 56%—roughly the same as for the last 35 years—while 57% still say religion has answers to most of the world’s problems.
Explore the results further at Gallup.
Tags: belief, Gallup, religion in the U.S., religious nones, surveys
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Schneider N. Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”. The Immanent Frame. 2010. Available at: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/01/11/poll-29-of-americans-say-religion-out-of-date/. Accessed May 21, 2013.
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Schneider, Nathan. (2010). Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”. Retrieved May 21, 2013, from The Immanent Frame Web site: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/01/11/poll-29-of-americans-say-religion-out-of-date/
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Schneider, Nathan. 2010. Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”. The Immanent Frame. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/01/11/poll-29-of-americans-say-religion-out-of-date/ (accessed May 21, 2013).
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Schneider, N 2010, Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”, The Immanent Frame. Retrieved May 21, 2013, from <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/01/11/poll-29-of-americans-say-religion-out-of-date/>
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Schneider, Nathan. "Poll: 29% of Americans say religion “out of date”." 11 Jan. 2010. The Immanent Frame. Accessed 21 May. 2013. <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/01/11/poll-29-of-americans-say-religion-out-of-date/>
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