{"id":13428,"date":"2015-11-03T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/5-key-findings-about-religiosity-in-the-u-s-and-how-its-changing\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:19:34","slug":"5-key-findings-about-religiosity-in-the-u-s-and-how-its-changing","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2015\/11\/03\/5-key-findings-about-religiosity-in-the-u-s-and-how-its-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 key findings about religiosity in the U.S. \u2013 and how it\u2019s changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On one level, the story of how Americans\u2019 religious affiliations are changing is well known and straightforward: More and more U.S. adults say they do not identify with any religion, while a shrinking majority describe themselves as Christians,\u00a0 according to \u00a0the Pew Research Center\u2019s 2014 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> we published in May.<\/p>\n\n

But whether the country is actually becoming less<\/em> religious is a more complicated question. Are its religious beliefs and practices changing beyond the declining shares of people who choose to identify with a religion?<\/p>\n\n

Our second report from the 2014 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> examines Americans\u2019 religious beliefs and finds that the question of whether adults in the U.S. are becoming more or less religious depends, in part, on how religious observance is measured.<\/p>\n\n