How Religious Are Americans?

Americans United for Separation of Church and State

The separation of church and state guarantees religious freedom, a fundamental American right promised by our system of government.

In face of Christian nationalist power, Americans reject religion

New Ipsos poll suggests Trump and Christian nationalism have discredited religion in the eyes of many Americans.

Opinion | Lots of Americans Are Losing Their Religion. Have You?

In 2023, only 39 percent of respondents said religion was very important to them, compared to 62 percent who said that in 1998.

The Nones: U.S. - AP Projects

The nones account for a large portion of Americans, as shown by the 30% of US adults who claim no religious affiliation in a survey by The Associated Press.

Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

First, researchers confirmed the widely known fact that, overall, Americans are much more religious than Western Europeans. They gauged ...

Less God, Less Giving? - Philanthropy Roundtable

Research by the Lilly School at Indiana University found Americans with any religious affiliation made average annual charitable donations of $1,590, versus ...

More Latino Americans Are Losing Their Religion | The New Yorker

Twenty-five per cent are Christian people of color; of those, a fifth are Hispanics, and almost seventy per cent of Hispanic Christians are ...

The Faith of the Founding Fathers - The Master's University

Did America's Founders intend to create a Christian nation? Does it matter today and, if so, why? In order to arrive at a proper answer to the first ...

Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty - Department of Justice

Americans do not give up their freedom of religion by participating in the marketplace, partaking of the public square, or interacting with government.

Are Americans More Secular Now? | By NBC News - Facebook

A new survey found the share of Americans who do not identify with a religion has grown dramatically. We asked people on the street if they ...

Most Americans say religion's influence is waning - Baptist Standard

What's more, he noted 48 percent of U.S. adults say there's “a great deal” of or “some” conflict between their religious beliefs and mainstream ...

Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans - UH Press

A wide-ranging and important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities.

Religious Freedom - American Bar Association

Under the US Constitution, religious freedom is the right for everyone to practice his or her religion, or to choose not to practice a religion at all.

America's Growing Religious-Secular Fertility Divide

Fertility has declined much more among nonreligious Americans than among the devout. Data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) from 1982 to 2019.

'The great dechurching': Why so many Americans are leaving their ...

40 million Americans have left churches and other religious institutions in the last 25 years. For some, the decision is rooted in deep pain.

The Effects of Education on Americans' Religious Practices, Beliefs ...

The effect of education on religious volunteering is even more robust. Each additional year of education is associated with more than a 23% increase in the odds ...

The Surprising Religious Diversity of America's 13 Colonies

Protestants were indeed in the majority, but the reality was far more diverse. Colonial America attracted true believers from a wide array of ...

Video: Religious Makeup of U.S. Citizens - Study.com

The majority of Americans are Christians, with a plurality of those being Roman Catholic. However, there are more Evangelical Christians when treated as one ...

New census of 500,000 people reveals shifts in U.S. religious ...

Of white Americans, 19% are Catholic, and of Black Americans, 7% are Catholic, while 11% of multiracial Americans identify as Catholic, PRRI said. Fully half of ...

Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline

“Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of US adults who describe their religious identity ...