Religious tradition among Asians by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among Asians by religious group
% of Asians who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 3% | 20% | 29% | 10% | < 1% | 1% | 3% | 10% | 3% | 10% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | 7% | < 1% | 183 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 4% | 36% | 18% | 13% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 7% | 1% | 12% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 8% | < 1% | 200 |
Not the word of God | 7% | 9% | 1% | 21% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 4% | 51% | 2% | 452 |
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