In the recent research of Pew Research Center, a great change in religious condition took place in the United States or U.S..The ruling Christian religion declines with higher percentage.
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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
population, consisting of people who describe their religious identity as
atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” now stands at 26%, up from 17% in
2009.
Both Protestantism and Catholicism are experiencing
losses of population share. Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with
Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. And one-in-five adults (20%) are
Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously
unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their
numbers swell. Self-described atheists now account for 4% of U.S. adults, up
modestly but significantly from 2% in 2009; agnostics make up 5% of U.S.
adults, up from 3% a decade ago; and 17% of Americans now describe their
religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12% in 2009. Members of
non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult
population.
These are among the key findings of a
new analysis of trends in the religious composition and churchgoing habits of
the American public, based on recent Pew Research Center random-digit-dial
(RDD) political polling on the telephone.1 The
data shows that the trend toward religious disaffiliation documented in the
Center’s 2007 and 2014 Religious Landscape Studies, and before that in major national studies like
the General Social Survey (GSS), has continued apace. " (Pew Research Center)
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