American Religions #
July 8th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
I strongly suspect this is months old, but it’s none the less fascinating. The USA Today offers a great Flash presentation of some data from the latest Pew Religion Survey. A few things that really struck me (unfortunately, it being Flash, I can’t link straight to the relevant charts):
- Jehovah’s Witnesses are truly exceptional. They seem to be outliers on just about every question in the set.
- Catholic’s acceptance of homosexuality is much higher than I’d expected. (58%, higher than the general population, which is at 50%. Still nowhere near the 80ish scores for Buddhists, Jews, and “Other Faiths.”)
- Belief in heaven is most common among Mormons and historically black churches. Who knew the two would have so much in common?
- Jews pray about as much as the unaffiliated.
(via Robin, who offers other portraits of the United States)