The study finds 62% of U.S. adults call themselves Christians. While a significant dip from 78% in 2007, Pew found the Christian share of the population has remained relatively stable since 2019.
Despite America's shifting religious landscape, the faith of the country's representatives has changed little.
Exit poll data from CNN and other news outlets reported that 72% of White Protestants and 61% of White Catholics said they voted for Trump.
White evangelical Protestants are the religious group most likely to score high on the Public Religion Research Institute’s Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale.
This issue of A Public Witness unpacks recent polling data and swing state demographics to explore why, despite all the media attention to evangelicals, political salvation for the Harris-Walz campaign will instead be found among mainline Protestants.
The biggest change came among those who said they quit their religious upbringing because of its treatment or teachings of LGBTQ people.
The percentage of Americans who never attend services outnumbers those who go every week, according to a new report.
There is also growing concern among an array of religious Americans that their beliefs are in conflict with mainstream American culture.
A strong majority of Americans, and majorities of many religious groups, still broadly support LGBTQ rights.
The survey found support for Christian Nationalism concentrated in two religious groups: white evangelical Protestants and Hispanic Protestants.