Sentences with phrase «religiously unaffiliated»

In both countries, only about one - in - twenty adults were religiously unaffiliated in the early 1970s.

The percentage of religiously unaffiliated respondents began to rise noticeably in the 1990s and stood at 18 % in the 2010 GSS.

The highest level of acceptance of evolution and the lowest level of belief that humans were recently created are found among the religiously unaffiliated.

42 percent of Muslims, 36 percent of Hindus, 35 percent of Buddhists and 34 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans are under 30 years old.

Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and the religiously unaffiliated are all significantly younger than white Christian groups.

The finding tracks with other studies on religious nones, many of which have found the growth among the religiously unaffiliated has been most notable among people who are 18 to 29 years old.

By 2055 to 2060 — as far out as the forecast goes — fewer than 1 in 10 babies born on the planet will be to religiously unaffiliated moms.

A significant portion of religious nones (44 %) and people under 30 (46 %) believe that the religiously unaffiliated are bound to become the largest religious group in the world by 2050, Pew found.

They are Christians and Jews of several varieties, an occasional Muslim, and religiously unaffiliated and nonreligious persons.

The study, which is a snapshot of world religions in 2010 and does not show trends, brings to light a unique religious landscape that's defined by a burgeoning Islam, a shifting Christianity and a large group of religiously unaffiliated.

The same report also found that 51 percent of millennials favor gay marriage and 29 percent are religiously unaffiliated, dovetailing with other common libertarian views.

CNN: Survey: Religiously unaffiliated, minority Christians propelled Obama's victory President Barack Obama's victory relied largely on two dramatically different religious coalitions — minority Christians and those with no religion — according to a survey released Thursday.

One - in - four Obama voters were religiously unaffiliated, the second - largest «religious» demographic in the president's coalition, according to the study (PDF).

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

Take the the much - talked - about rise of the religiously unaffiliated, or «nones.»

In a recent Washington Post article, he brought some much needed perspective to the overblown «Christianity in decline» meme that followed the publication of a recent Pew Survey showing the percentage of Americans calling themselves Christians in decline while the number of the religiously unaffiliated was growing.

This raises the question of whether being religiously unaffiliated among African - Americans and Hispanics means something different than it means among their white counterparts.

Pew tells us that «Whites continue to be more likely than both blacks and Hispanics to identify as religiously unaffiliated,» adding «But the religiously unaffiliated have grown (and Christians have declined) as a share of the population within all three of these racial and ethnic groups.»

Any tendency to triumphalism on the part of Christians should be chastened by the equally dramatic, recent defection of millions of American Christians to the ranks of the religiously unaffiliated (not just to the «unchurched.»

The «nothing in particular» category — along with atheists and agnostics, a group of religiously unaffiliated Americans nicknamed the «nones» — is a particularly interesting demographic to follow during this period.

In 2012, Pew Research Center released data showing that 32 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 are religiously unaffiliated.

Overall, a much larger percentage of the religiously unaffiliated (a category that includes many atheists) identify as liberal than conservative.

People who say they're religiously unaffiliated have one member in all of Congress for representation, but are 23 percent of the U.S. population.

The same study showcases «the percentage of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated — describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or «nothing in particular» — has jumped more than six points, from 16.1 to 22.8 percent.»

Sam Stone, According to a recent study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry religious affiliation is associated with significantly lower levels of suicide compared to religiously unaffiliated people, atheists and agnostics.

• 1/3 of American adults under 30 state they have no religious affiliation • 88 % of the religiously unaffiliated say they're not looking for a religion that is right for them

Eighty percent identify as Christian, along with 28 Jewish people, three Buddhists, 2 Hindu members, two Muslims, one Unitarian Universalist and one member who calls herself «religiously unaffiliated.»

With over 20 % of Americans now identifying as religiously unaffiliated and MANY of the people who do identify themselves as Christians are only saying that to stay part of «the club» and to not be ostracized by their Christian friends, the numbers of the deluded are dwindling.

Religious «nones» — a combination of atheists, agnostics and the religiously unaffiliated, have been growing their ranks in recent years.

According to the poll, 34 % of «younger millennials» - those born between 1990 and 1994 - are religiously unaffiliated.

His book How to Reach Secular People is good, as is James Emery White's book called The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated.

Somewhat surprisingly, one - fifth of the religiously unaffiliated say that clergy contribute a lot to society — another indication that, in America, even the Nones have a soft spot for religion.

(The survey's margin of error for the religiously unaffiliated: ± 1.4 %.)

Seven percent of survey respondents were raised in an unaffiliated family, but today 19 % identify as religiously unaffiliated.

The religiously unaffiliated seems to be the benefactors of this decline — their numbers continue to rise, especially compared to the small number of Americans who were raised religiously unaffiliated.

According to the recent study from the Pew Research Center, 22.8 percent of U.S. adults and 35 percent of millennials are religiously unaffiliated.

The religiously unaffiliated were the only group in which more people say they find abortion morally acceptable rather than wrong.

In fact, a buried story here seems to be how Asian immigration may be fueling the rise of the «nones»: people who are religiously unaffiliated.

One of the most surprising insights from recent Pew surveys is that most religiously unaffiliated Americans (68 percent) still believe in God, with many also professing strong spiritual inclinations.

Even among those who are religiously unaffiliated, 20 percent say they pray daily.

In explaining why the group decided to join CPAC, Silverman cited a 2012 Pew Research study that found 20 % of self - identified conservatives consider themselves religiously unaffiliated.

Among those born 1990 - 1994, fully one - third are religiously unaffiliated.

«According to other studies conducted by Pew in recent years, nearly a third of all millennials — Americans between the ages of 18 - 33 — are religiously unaffiliated, a dramatic and ongoing change from previous generations.»

I've never know where to rate «religiously unaffiliated» people.

(Wilcox does not mention the recent and widely publicized finding that evangelical wives have better sex lives with their husbands than religiously unaffiliated do with theirs, but it seems to follow that this would be so.)

Active (that is, regularly churchgoing), married conservative Protestant fathers have more one - on - one interaction with their children than do mainline Protestants, conservative Protestants who seldom attend church, or the religiously unaffiliated.

«A 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports that just 6 % of the US population are atheists even though the number of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 15 % to just under 20 %.»

But you also left this part out: religiously unaffiliated Brazilians grew by large margins.

In 2010 Catholics made up 65 % of the population, as the numbers of evangelical Protestants and religiously unaffiliated Brazilians grew by large margins.

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.