U.S Religious Landscape Survey

Shoku · Post by **Shoku** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:38 pm

Here is an up-to-date survey of religions in America.

http://religions.pewforum.org/

Very interesting stuff.

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:22 am

hmm... what's the difference between \"Secular Unaffiliated\" and \"Atheist\"

Zuruck · Post by **Zuruck** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:00 am

roid, I would guess that secular unaffiliated means that you believe in a God, you just don't follow a denomination. You should know what atheist means.

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:50 am

But there was also \"Religious unaffiliated\"

\"Atheist\"
\"Agnostic\"
\"Nothing in Particular\"
- \"Religious unaffiliated\"
- \"Secular Unaffiliated\"

What could Secular Unaffiliated mean if not Atheist?

My guess is that when the person answers the question as \"nothing in particular\", they are then asked \"Which would you say you were: religious or secular?\"

Herculosis · Post by **Herculosis** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:31 am

From the full report:

\"Like the other major groups, people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion (16.1%) also exhibit remarkable internal diversity. Although one-quarter of this group consists of those who describe themselves as either atheist or agnostic (1.6% and 2.4% of the adult population overall, respectively), the majority of the unaffiliated population (12.1% of the adult population overall) is made up of people who simply describe their religion as \"nothing in particular.\" This group, in turn, is fairly evenly divided between the \"secular unaffiliated,\" that is, those who say that religion is not important in their lives (6.3% of the adult population), and the \"religious unaffiliated,\" that is, those who say that religion is either somewhat important or very important in their lives (5.8% of the overall adult population).\"