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Pew Research CenterApril 30, 2015
America’s Changing Religious Landscape

Religious Switching: “Nones” Make Big Gains, Catholics Experience Big Loses

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America's Changing Religious Landscape
Changing U.S. Religious Landscape
Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity Within Christianity
Religious Switching: “Nones” Make Big Gains, Catholics Experience Big Loses
Christians Decline as Share of U.S. Population; Other Faiths and the Unaffiliated Are Growing
Generational Replacement Helping Drive Growth of Unaffiliated, Decline of Mainline Protestantism and Catholicism
Unaffiliated Make Up Growing Share Across Generations
Unaffiliated Make Big Gains Through Religious Switching; Catholics and Mainline Protestants Suffer Large Losses
Rapid Growth of Religiously Unaffiliated
Size of Historically Black Protestant Tradition Has Been Stable
Five Million Fewer Mainline Protestant Adults Than in 2007
Estimated Number of Christians Declines
Declining Number of Catholics
Number of Evangelical Protestants Growing

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