Religious Trends

“reasons for switching to a new religious tradition or denomination…(56%) say it was because they stopped believing…. 30% indicate they were turned off by the religion’s negative teachings about or treatment of LGBTQ people, 29% say their family was never that religious growing up, 27% say they were disillusioned by scandals” - PRRI

“To identify charismatics, we asked respondents whether they attended religious services where people engage in signature practices and beliefs of Pentecostal and charismatic movements: speaking in tongues, receiving direct revelation from God, divine healing, or receiving a definite answer to a prayer.” - PRRI

“While the margin of error is high with any small subgroup, the results are thought provoking.” - RNS

“In the U.S., 39 percent of respondents expressed the belief….The belief is lowest in Thailand, a largely Theravada Buddhist population, polling at 27 percent.” - BPNews

“among people born in the 1980s, over 40 percent expressed a great deal of confidence in organized religion when they were coming into adulthood…. Now less than 20 percent of these birth cohorts think they can trust organized religion.” - TGC

“Those who changed faith traditions are more likely to believe that ‘the Bible is totally accurate in all of the pictures it presents’ (64%) than those who have stayed with the same faith tradition (47%).” - CPost

“According to The Wall Street Journal, recent polling data shows a ‘Surprising surge of faith among young people.’” - Breakpoint

“Despite the decline in Bible users, 63 million Americans (24%) personally engage with Scripture at least weekly, beyond church services.” - Lifeway

“The findings came from The American Worldview Inventory 2023, an annual tracking study of the worldview of U.S. adults involving 2,000 people from across the country and conducted under the supervision of George Barna” - CPost

“Among the groups with concerns that religious institutions are watering down or abandoning their traditional beliefs, 52% of Evangelical Christians strongly believed that this is the case. Thirty percent of Protestants, 41% of Jews, and 34% of Catholics” - CPost