Religious Trends

“From 2000 to 2017, the share of Protestants in the U.S. fell from 57% to 46%, and Catholics dropped from 25% to 21%, while religious nones jumped from 8% to 20%. Since that time, however, each group has remained within a few percentage points of its share. Currently, Protestants are at 45%, Catholics are at 21%, and the unaffiliated are at 22%.” - Baptist Press

“Drawing on responses from more than 24,000 Christian churchgoers surveyed between September 2024 and January 2025, the EPIC Attender Survey, spearheaded by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, offers the most comprehensive portrait yet of how religious life has shifted since the pandemic began in March 2020.” - MinistryWatch

“While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or family relationship to Catholicism, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.” - RNS

“Why the sudden interest? One London-based creator who has 1.2 million followers on TikTok suggests that her predominantly Gen Z followers had turned to astrology for a ‘sense of agency’ when life felt chaotic.” - Church & Culture

“that’s about 90 million people who have changed their religious identities. Pew Research Center’s Alan Cooperman, director of religion research, explains the trends.” - YouTube

“A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though it remained the world’s largest religion, Christians declined percentage-wise among the world’s population between 2010 and 2020.” - RNS

“One on hand, the discussion indicates a growing, widespread exhaustion with secular materialism. Across culture, including politics, there are indications of what some are calling ‘re-enchantment.’ Where Klein and Douthat (and many others) disagree, is whether or not this new openness to the mystical, spiritual, and other-worldly will be helpful or dangerous.” - Breakpoint

“On the one hand, some are flocking to more traditional and liturgical forms of Christianity like Eastern Orthodoxy…. On the other hand, contemporary Christian music (CCM) is thriving… and market research indicates younger audiences are driving much of this growth.” - CToday

“In social science, it’s relatively easy to explain what is happening….But once you describe the what, it’s natural to begin wondering about the why.” - C.Today

“The report was based on the REDI Monitor, a benchmark assessment that tracks religious inclusion at Fortune 500 companies. It gave businesses an average score of 4.2 for 2025 — up from 3.6 in 2024 and 2.1 in 2023.” - RNS