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The U.S. contains the largest Protestant population of any country in the world. Baptists comprise about one-third of American Protestants. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest single Protestant denomination in the U.S., comprising one-tenth of American Protestants.
Jul 3, 2024 · In 2022, about 34 percent of Americans were Protestants, making it the most common form of Christianity in the United States. Protestantism has been the most prominent form of Christianity ...
- Mainline Protestantism by State
- Membership
- Beliefs
- The Decline of Mainline Protestants
The Midwest has the highest concentration of Mainline Protestants with South Dakota (32%), Iowa (30%), and Minnesota (29%) having the highest populations. Other states which have high numbers of Mainline Protestants include West Virginia (29%), North Dakota (28%), Kansas (24%), Nebraska (24%), Pennsylvania (23%), Delaware (21%), and Maine (21%). Th...
Among these Mainline Protestants, there exists a pattern with regards to the age groups. The largest numbers of people who subscribe to the religion are ages 30-49 (29%) and 50-64 (29%). The other age groups such as 18-29 and 65 and above make up 16% and 26% of the Mainline Protestants respectively. Many of the Mainline Protestants are Republicans ...
Most of the Mainline Protestants believe in heaven and hell according to a PEW study. 66% of the Protestants believe in God and 53% of them are convinced that religion is an important part of one’s life. However, there were interesting aspects of the study. First, the study revealed that only 33% of Mainline Protestants went to church. Furthermore ...
Before the 1960s, the Mainline Protestants had a high membership subscription and growth rates in the United States. The decline began in the early 1960s leading to the few numbers seen today. Some of the reasons attributed to the decline include the exodus of the youth in the 1970s, believers’ search for richer spiritual diets, and the indifferenc...
Sep 17, 2022 · A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the...
May 12, 2015 · Evangelicals now make up a clear majority (55%) of all U.S. Protestants. In 2007, 51% of U.S. Protestants identified with evangelical churches. While the overall Christian share of the population has dropped in recent years, the number of Americans who do not identify with any religion has soared.
- Benjamin Wormald
Four in ten or more Orthodox Christians (48%), white Catholics (42%), and Latter-day Saints (40%) also have at least a four-year college degree. More than one-third of Muslims (39%), white mainline Protestants (37%), Buddhists (37%), and the religiously unafiliated (36%) have at least a four-year college degree.
During the pandemic, a stable share of U.S. adults have been participating in religious services in some way – either virtually or in person – but in-person attendance is slightly lower than it was before COVID-19.
