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Pew Global Attitudes Project Releases Survey Results on Global Opinions toward the U.S.
The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys encompassing a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day.
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In one of the survey's most striking findings, majorities in Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan say that they do not believe groups of Arabs carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Nearly four-in-ten Germans (37%), and 29% of Americans, say there is a natural conflict between being a devout Christian and living in a modern society.
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Date: 6/30/2006
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
Survey Tracks American's Religious Identification from 1948 - 2004
| "Do you mostly attend a place of worship that is Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish or what?" |
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'48 |
'58 |
'68 |
'78 |
'88 |
'98 |
'04 |
| Protestant |
70% |
74% |
72% |
63% |
65% |
51% |
55% |
| Catholic |
21% |
21% |
22% |
24% |
24% |
31% |
25% |
| Jewish |
4% |
3% |
3% |
3% |
2% |
2% |
3% |
| Other and None |
5% |
3% |
4% |
10% |
10% |
16% |
17% |
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| Attitudes about the Accuracy of the Bible |
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'64 |
'68 |
'80 |
'84 |
'88 |
'90 |
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| Bible is God's Word |
51%
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52% |
46% |
48% |
48% |
49% |
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| Some Human Errors |
42% |
38% |
42% |
40% |
40% |
38% |
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| Written by Mise Men |
3% |
6% |
6% |
6% |
6% |
8% |
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| Bible Worth Little Today |
1% |
2% |
2% |
2% |
2% |
3% |
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| Don't Know, Other |
3% |
3% |
3% |
4% |
3% |
2% |
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Date: 6/17/2006
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