Neha Sahgal is Vice President of Research at Pew Research Center. In this role, she partners with a team of highly-skilled and specialized research directors to curate an interdisciplinary research agenda. She also oversees project performance and research staff development.
Neha has a background in multicountry, multilingual and multicultural survey research. Prior to serving the Center in her current role, she headed several marquee research projects such as the survey of religion in India, a 16-country survey on public attitudes toward religion, nationalism and tolerance in Western Europe and a study on religious change in Latin America. She has also served on AAPOR’s standards committee. Neha holds a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. in Political Science from the College of Wooster.
Indians see religious tolerance as a central part of who they are as a nation. Across the major religious groups, most people say it is very important to respect all religions to be “truly Indian.”
Many across Western Europe and the U.S. would be willing to accept Muslims as family or as neighbors. Yet there is no consensus on whether Islam fits into these societies.
Most Christians in Western Europe today are non-practicing, but Christian identity still remains a meaningful religious, social and cultural marker. Read 10 key findings from our new survey.
Five centuries after the Reformation, global Protestant Christianity looks very different than it did at its inception. Here is a look at some key facts about Protestants around the world.
Religion has reasserted itself as an important part of individual and national identity in many places where communist regimes once repressed religious worship and promoted atheism.
