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When you map the primary religion in every county in America, the Catholics stand out. As America’s single-largest religious group, Catholics show up everywhere, from the Italian alleyways of ...
The proportion of non-religious people in America is growing in every U.S. state except South Dakota, new research suggests. Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing ...
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, polling organizations, and several other sources, charity research firm SmileHub created a ranking for America's "most religious states," seen below on a ...
That slice of the U.S. religious scene is growing. Almost 4-in-10 Americans (39%) who have married since 2010 have a spouse who is in a different religious group, according to a 2015 Pew Research ...
Newsweek has previously mapped the most religious states in America. Alabama topped that list, followed by Virginia. Towards the other end of the spectrum were Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts ...
As Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell demonstrated in their 2010 book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, most Americans no longer orient their lives around houses of worship.
Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” If ...
Politicians still end their speeches with “God bless America.” At least until recently, more Americans believed in the virgin birth of Jesus ( 66 percent ) than in evolution ( 54 percent ).