Religious tradition among adults in New Jersey by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults in New Jersey by religious group
% of adults in New Jersey 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% | 29% | 26% | 2% | 12% | 2% | 5% | 8% | 2% | 5% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 6% | 1% | 171 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 46% | 12% | 2% | 6% | 1% | 7% | 16% | 1% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 266 |
Not the word of God | < 1% | 30% | 3% | 4% | 1% | < 1% | 7% | 13% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | 1% | 35% | 1% | 341 |
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