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e. Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States. Estimates from 2021 suggest that of the entire U.S. population (332 million) about 63% is Christian (210 million). [1] The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 42%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman ...
Christianity in America is experiencing a growing generational divide. In the U.S. in 2014, 70 percent of adults age 65 were absolutely certain of the existence of God, as well as 65...
17 de oct. de 2019 · Today, there are roughly 23 million more adults in the U.S. than there were in 2009 (256 million as of July 1, 2019, according to the Census Bureau). About two-thirds of them (65%) identify as Christians, according to 2018 and 2019 Pew Research Center RDD estimates.
17 de sept. de 2022 · America’s Christian majority is facing steep declines. Christianity remains the majority religion in the United States, as it has been since the country's founding, but it's on the decline.
- Generational ‘Snowball’
- Disaffiliation Among Older Adults
- Education, Politics and Geography Tied to Differences in Religious Switching
- Other Drivers of Change
Whatever the deeper causes, religious disaffiliation in the U.S. is being fueled by switching patterns that started “snowballing” from generation to generation in the 1990s. The core population of “nones” has an increasingly “sticky” identity as it rolls forward, and it is gaining a lot more people than it is shedding, in a dynamic that has a kind ...
The “snowballing” dynamic is being driven by an acceleration in switching among young Christians – those ages 15 to 29. People under 30 tend to grapple with identities of all kinds, and young adulthood is often a time of major change, when many people leave their parents’ household, start careers and form lasting romantic partnerships. But there is...
A closer look at the characteristics of adults who have left Christianity and are now religiously unaffiliated indicates that other traits – such as age, gender, education, political identity and region of residence – also are tied to disaffiliation. U.S. adults who have moved away from Christianity are younger, on average, than those who have rema...
Switching is the primary, but by no means the only, process causing religious change in the U.S. Populations can grow or shrink through a few other mechanisms. Patterns of religious transmission, migration and fertility explain some of the shift in the religious landscape in recent decades.
- Reem Nadeem
15 de sept. de 2022 · The U.S.'s Christian majority has been shrinking for decades. A Pew Research Center study shows that as of 2020, about 64% of Americans identify as Christian. Fifty years ago, that number...
13 de sept. de 2022 · Report. |. September 13, 2022. Modeling the Future of Religion in America. If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades. (Nicholas Smith/Getty Images) How we did this.
