Sentences with phrase «white evangelicals surveyed»

Not exact matches

PRRI's 2016 survey found that 43 percent of Americans identify as white and Christian, and only 17 percent identify as white evangelical Protestant.

And white evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.

Washington (CNN)- Forty years after the Supreme Court protected abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, a new survey finds that white evangelicals remain the only major religious group that supports overturning the landmark ruling, even though most such groups find abortion morally wrong.

A new PRRI survey released today asked a different question, but found similar results: 73 percent of white evangelicals said Islam was at odds with American values, compared with 56 percent of all Americans.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

Last year, a Pew survey found that 70 percent of white evangelicals believed that «Islam encourages more violence than other religions.»

According to a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey, 8 % of white evangelical Protestants favor tighter gun laws.

«Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face - to - face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America.

A more interesting part of this is found in the survey cited in the article: the first choice of white evangelicals for avoiding this kind of event is teaching more morality and god.

Previous Pew surveys show that about half of white evangelicals say Mormonism is not a Christian faith.

According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted before the election, about two - thirds of white evangelicals (67 %) and mainline Protestants (65 %) believe that America does not have a moral responsibility to accept Syrian refugees.

Major survey organizations such as Pew Research Center, Gallup, and Public Religion Research Institute often split non-Catholic Christians into the historical categories of black Protestants, mainline Protestants, and white evangelicals.

Surveys that focus on white evangelicals shape the way our non-evangelical neighbors see evangelical believers.

By a 48 to 34 percent margin, white evangelical Protestants questioned say they oppose allowing gays from serving openly, while majorities or pluralities of other religious groups surveyed favor allowing gays to serve.

The desire to survey white evangelicals to determine their political interests inadvertently ends up conveying two ideas that are not true: that «evangelical» means «white» and that evangelicals are primarily defined by their politics.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

While surveys have found that most self - identified white evangelicals approve of Trump's temporary moratorium on refugees, most evangelical leaders oppose it.

Self - identified white evangelicals, who lean Republican, showed the strongest support among faith groups for the travel ban, with a 76 percent approval rate in a Pew Research Center survey released last week.

According to a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 63 percent of white evangelicals, 63 percent of Republican - leaning voters, and half of all Americans over 65 believe that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths.

More than half of white evangelicals (54 %) and white mainline Protestants (53 %) would support a law barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, according to a survey conducted in June by the Public Religion Research Institute.

According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted before the election, about two - thirds of white evangelicals (67 %) believe that America does not have a moral responsibility to accept Syrian refugees.

And the students» reception at the church reflects the complicated relationship between white evangelicals and Muslims shown in the surveys and the news.

White evangelicals were also the only religious group whose endorsement of a temporary ban on Muslims entered the US grew over the past nine months, according to a recent PRRI survey.