{"id":9847,"date":"2020-04-30T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-07-09T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:08:38","slug":"few-americans-say-their-house-of-worship-is-open-but-a-quarter-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/04\/30\/few-americans-say-their-house-of-worship-is-open-but-a-quarter-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Americans say their house of worship is open, but a quarter say their faith has grown amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FT_20.04.30_covidCongregations_featured.jpg\" alt=\"A religious leader greets parishioners arriving for Easter worship in Florida. In order to observe social distancing guidelines, members of the congregation met in the parking lot and watched a Facebook Live streaming of the service taking place inside the church. (Joe Raedle via Getty Images)\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A religious leader greets parishioners arriving for Easter worship in Florida. In order to observe social distancing guidelines, members of the congregation met in the parking lot and watched a Facebook Live streaming of the service taking place inside the church. (Joe Raedle via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/topics\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, which has transformed virtually every aspect of public life in America, also has touched a very intimate part of Americans\u2019 lives: their religious faith and worship habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Americans say their religious faith has strengthened as a result of the outbreak, even as the vast majority of U.S. churchgoers report that their congregations have closed regular worship services to the public, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/journalism\/2020\/04\/29\/about-seven-in-ten-u-s-adults-say-they-need-to-take-breaks-from-covid-19-news\/\">new Pew Research Center survey<\/a>. Americans in historically black Protestant churches and those who describe themselves as very religious are particularly likely to say their faith has strengthened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One-quarter of U.S. adults overall (24%) say their faith has become stronger because of the coronavirus pandemic, while just 2% say their faith has become weaker. The majority say their faith hasn\u2019t changed much (47%) or that the question isn\u2019t applicable because they were not religious to begin with (26%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/04\/30\/few-americans-say-their-house-of-worship-is-open-but-a-quarter-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-pandemic\/ft_2020-04-30_covidworship_01-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"cadbe3\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #cadbe3;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_01.png?resize=480,515 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_01.png?resize=782,839 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_01.png?resize=960,1030 960w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_01.png?resize=1200,1288 1200w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_01.png?resize=1281,1375 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"687\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_01.png?w=954\" alt=\"Americans far more likely to say coronavirus crisis has strengthened their faith, rather than weakened it\" class=\"wp-image-18316 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div style=\"border-width:1px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);--block-gap: inherit\" class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible has-background has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-border-color has-ui-beige-dark-border-color\" id=\"how-we-did-this\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/collapsible&quot;}\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;collapsibleId&quot;:&quot;how-we-did-this&quot;,&quot;isOpen&quot;:false}\" data-wp-class--is-open=\"context.isOpen\" data-wp-init--scroll-into-view=\"callbacks.onInitScrollIntoView\"><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__title\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"><div>How we did this<\/div><button class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__icon\"><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"context.isOpen\"><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-plus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-plus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!context.isOpen\" hidden><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-minus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-minus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__content\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To find out how U.S. adults\u2019 religious faith may be changing and how houses of worship are adapting amid the coronavirus outbreak, we surveyed 10,139 U.S. adults from April 20 to 26, 2020, the most recent survey in the Center\u2019s nearly yearlong <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/pathways-2020\/\">Election News Pathways project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All respondents to the survey are part of Pew Research Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/methods\/u-s-survey-research\/american-trends-panel\/\">American Trends Panel<\/a> (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. For more, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/methods\/u-s-survey-research\/american-trends-panel\/\">ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/worship-topline.pdf\">the questions used<\/a> for this report, along with responses, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/W66-American-Trends-Panel-Survey-Methodology.pdf\">methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opinions on this question vary based on respondents\u2019 religious affiliation and how religious they are. Christians are more likely than other religious groups in this analysis to say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the pandemic, a feeling that is reported by 56% of Protestants in the historically black tradition, as well as by four-in-ten evangelicals (42%) and roughly one-quarter of Catholics (27%) and mainline Protestants (22%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jews, on the other hand, are more likely to say their faith hasn\u2019t changed much (69%) or that the question isn\u2019t applicable to them because they are not religious (22%) than they are to say their faith has grown stronger during the outbreak (7%). Among the religiously unaffiliated \u2013 those who say their religion is atheist, agnostic or \u201cnothing in particular\u201d \u2013 roughly a quarter say their faith hasn\u2019t changed much (26%), while the majority say they were not religious to begin with (65%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most religious Americans \u2013 those who frequently pray and attend services (at least in typical times), and who rate religion as very important to them \u2013 are far more likely than others to say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. In other words, the self-reported strengthening of religious faith has been most pronounced within a segment of the public that was already quite religious to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, 46% of U.S. adults who said last year that they attend religious services at least once or twice a month say their faith has strengthened, compared with one-quarter (26%) of those who attend services just a few times a year and 11% of those who seldom or never attend. But even among people who are not very religious, very few say their faith has weakened. Rather, most say that their level of faith hasn\u2019t changed much or that the question isn\u2019t applicable to them because they don\u2019t consider themselves to be religious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There also are differences on this question by race and ethnicity, gender and age. Larger shares of black Americans than whites or Hispanics say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the coronavirus outbreak; women and older adults are more likely to say this than men and younger adults. (To analyze these questions further, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/pathways-2020\/\">Election News Pathways data tool<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-640-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/04\/30\/few-americans-say-their-house-of-worship-is-open-but-a-quarter-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-pandemic\/ft_2020-04-30_covidworship_02-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"d1dfe6\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d1dfe6;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_02.png?resize=480,337 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_02.png?resize=782,549 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_02.png?resize=960,674 960w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_02.png?resize=1200,842 1200w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_02.png?resize=1281,899 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"449\" width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_02.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Black Americans more likely than whites and Hispanics to say their faith is stronger because of pandemic\" class=\"wp-image-18317 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"majorities-of-church-attenders-say-their-congregation-has-closed-its-doors-to-the-public-and-put-its-services-online\"><a id=\"church-closed\"><\/a>Majorities of church attenders say their congregation has closed its doors to the public and put its services online<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-420-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/04\/30\/few-americans-say-their-house-of-worship-is-open-but-a-quarter-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-pandemic\/ft_2020-04-30_covidworship_03-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"c3dee7\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #c3dee7;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_03.png?resize=480,568 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_03.png?resize=782,925 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_03.png?resize=841,995 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"497\" width=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_03.png?w=841\" alt=\"Very few churchgoers say their congregation is allowing in-person gatherings\" class=\"wp-image-18323 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains to be seen whether the strengthened faith that some Americans are experiencing will translate into greater service attendance, since most houses of worship are closed due to nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/04\/27\/most-states-have-religious-exemptions-to-covid-19-social-distancing-rules\/\">social distancing recommendations<\/a>. Indeed, among U.S. adults who say they<em> typically attend religious services at least once or twice a month<\/em>, just 3% say their congregation is still holding in-person services. The vast majority (91%) say their congregation has closed its religious services to the public, and 5% say they do not know what their congregation has done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If one looks not just at regular attenders but at <em>all <\/em>U.S. adults, still only 3% say people are still gathering in person for religious services at their congregation or the place of worship where they go most often. Roughly half say their house of worship has closed its religious services to the public, and 45% say they don\u2019t attend services or don\u2019t know what their house of worship has done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vast majorities of churchgoing Christians, those who attend worship services at least once a month, report that their congregation has been closed, including nine-in-ten or more among evangelical Protestants (92%), Catholics (94%) and mainline Protestants (96%). A somewhat smaller majority of those in the historically black Protestant tradition say their church has closed due to the outbreak (79%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very few adherents of any Christian tradition say that people are still gathering in person at their houses of worship. This ranges from 1% of Catholics to 7% of Protestants who belong to historically black churches. Although they are included in the full sample, non-Christian religious groups are not analyzed separately due to sample size limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-420-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/04\/30\/few-americans-say-their-house-of-worship-is-open-but-a-quarter-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-pandemic\/ft_2020-04-30_covidworship_04-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"c7e1e9\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #c7e1e9;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_04.png?resize=480,566 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_04.png?resize=782,921 782w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_04.png?resize=841,991 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" height=\"495\" width=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/04\/ft_2020.04.30_covidworship_04.png?w=841\" alt=\"Americans who worship regularly say their services have moved online\" class=\"wp-image-18326 not-transparent\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congregants may not be physically sitting in the pews each Sunday, but their house of worship is most likely streaming or recording its services so that people can access them virtually. Among U.S. adults who report attending religious services at least monthly, 82% say that the place of worship they most often attend is streaming or recording its services so that people can watch them online or on TV. About one-in-eight (12%) say their primary place of worship has not done this, while the remainder say they don\u2019t know (5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than eight-in-ten churchgoing Christians say their primary church offers streaming or recorded services online or on TV, including roughly nine-in-ten evangelical (92%) and mainline Protestants (86%) who say this. Most Catholics (79%) and Protestants in the historically black tradition (73%) also say their churches are making\nreligious services available remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Pew Research Center survey <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2020\/03\/30\/most-americans-say-coronavirus-outbreak-has-impacted-their-lives\/\">conducted last month<\/a> found that 57% of adults who attend religious services at least monthly said they have watched religious services online or on TV because of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/worship-topline.pdf\">the questions used<\/a> for this report, along with responses, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/W66-American-Trends-Panel-Survey-Methodology.pdf\">methodology<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24% of U.S. adults overall say their faith has become stronger because of the coronavirus pandemic; 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