Protestantism

But they hold differing opinions about what that phrase means, and two-thirds of U.S. adults say churches should keep out of politics.

A majority of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, but many are open to restrictions; many opponents of legal abortion say it should be legal in some circumstances.

Churches and other houses of worship increasingly are holding services the way they did before the COVID-19 outbreak began.

While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.

Disagreements among Americans across the religious spectrum extend to personal issues, such as life priorities and gender roles in the family.

Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.

In the new survey, the Center attempted for the first time to pose some of these philosophical questions to a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, finding that Americans largely blame random chance – along with people’s own actions and the way society is structured – for human suffering, while relatively few believers blame God or voice doubts about the existence of God for this reason.

Pew Research Center’s political typology sorts Americans into cohesive, like-minded groups based on their values, beliefs, and views about politics and the political system. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics.

Black Southerners diverge from other Black Americans – especially Northeasterners and Westerners – in other ways when it comes to religion.

75% of Black Americans say that opposing racism is essential to their faith or sense of morality, a view that extends across faith traditions.