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Survey Reveals Struggles among Church Leaders May be Having Harmful Effects on Groups.
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Previous research has suggested that individuals sometimes switch religions for quite practical reasons: marriage to a spouse of a different faith, the desire to worship with individuals of one's social class after undergoing upward social mobility, and moving to an area in which there are no churches of one's original faith.
- These data, however, suggest that religious switchers are most likely to do so because of a disconnect between their beliefs and goals and what their former religion was teaching or providing.
- Those who switched from one religion to another are by far most likely to agree that having found a "new religion that is more fulfilling" is of major importance as a reason why they switched.
- Of some interest is the fact that those who switched out of religion altogether are as likely to cite these [squabbles within religious and Protestant denominations] as a reason of major importance than are those who switched between religions, and that at least one out of five of those in both groups say leader disagreement has major importance.
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Fifteen percent of the overall adult population reports inter-religious switching, and there are few demographic or geographic subgroups in which this percentage is significantly higher or lower.
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Date: 6/23/2006
Barna Survey: Half of Americans Say Faith Has “Greatly Transformed” Their Life
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(Ventura, CA) – Backing up its reputation as a highly religious people, half of all American adults said that their life has been “greatly transformed” by their religious faith. This is one of the key results from a new survey by The Barna Group based on a nationwide telephone survey among a representative sample of more than 2000 adults.
- Overall, 51% of the survey respondents said they have been greatly transformed by their faith
- one-fourth (28%) said their faith has been helpful but has not produced significant transformation
- nearly one out of five (17%) claimed their faith has not made much of a difference in their life.
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Date: 6/6/2006
Go Figure: Statistics on the Christian Life
13% - Americans who believe Jesus' death was faked and that he married and had a family, the central thesis of The Da Vinci Code.
64% - Americans who say they would vote for a presidential candidate who is an evangelical.
78% - U.S. college students who say religion plays an important part in their lives.
78% - Americans who believe Jesus died on the Cross and was resurrected to eternal life, the central thesis of Christianity.
25% - Students who say they are more spiritual since entering college.
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Date: 6/1/2006
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