April 10, 2009
The percentage of Americans who identify with some form of a Christian religion has been dropping in recent decades, and now stands at 77%. In 1948, when Gallup began tracking religious identification, the percentage who were Christian was 91%.
April 9, 2009
Weekly church attendance among Catholics dropped from 75% to 46% between the 1950s and 1990s, but has seemed to stabilize in the past decade. Church attendance among Protestants has been fairly steady over the past six decades, averaging 42% in ...
April 7, 2009
Worldwide, people in more religious countries are more likely than people in more secular countries to perceive intolerance of ethnic and racial minorities in their communities. However, for individual religions and people, the association ...
March 30, 2009
American Catholics are no less likely than non-Catholics to find abortion and embryonic stem-cell research morally acceptable. While regular churchgoing Catholics are more conservative than other Catholics on these issues, they are no more ...
March 23, 2009
Despite the economic recession, a review of more than 425,000 interviews Gallup has conducted since early 2008 shows no increase in either the average of 65% of Americans who say religion is important in their daily lives, or the 42% who report ...
March 10, 2009
People living in countries where more people say religion is important in their daily lives are much more likely than those living in countries where fewer people say religion is important to report that their communities are not good places to ...
March 6, 2009
Gallup Polls conducted in 2008 reveal that in countries where average annual incomes are $2,000 or less, religiosity makes a difference in residents’ emotional health and their likelihood to report positive experiences and interactions. These ...
February 11, 2009
On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, new Gallup polling shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have ...
February 9, 2009
In terms of their likelihood to say religion is important in their daily lives, U.S. state populations span a range that invites comparisons to some predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East, as well as to some relatively secular nations ...
January 28, 2009
Gallup Poll Editor in Chief Frank Newport reveals the most and least religious states in the nation.
