Religious tradition among adults in Alabama by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults in Alabama by religious group
% of adults in Alabama 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 | < 1% | 5% | 58% | < 1% | 22% | < 1% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 245 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 7% | 46% | < 1% | 13% | 1% | < 1% | 20% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 147 |
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