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Pew Research

Pew: Religious Terrorism at Record Low, Government Persecution at Record High

By Filings on Fri, 10/01/21
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“Countries with religion-related terrorist activity at a record low of 49 after five consecutive years of decline. Yet 28 nations still suffered more than 50 people injured or killed.” - CToday

More White Americans adopted than shed evangelical label during Trump presidency, especially his supporters

By Filings on Thu, 09/16/21
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“…there is solid evidence that White Americans who viewed Trump favorably and did not identify as evangelicals in 2016 were much more likely than White Trump skeptics to begin identifying as born-again or evangelical Protestants by 2020.” - Pew

Pew: In the last 5 years the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half

By Filings on Tue, 08/31/21
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“Nearly eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (78%) say they have ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ trust in the information that comes from national news organizations – 43 percentage points higher than Republicans and Republican leaners (35%) – according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted June 14-27, 2021.” - Pew

Pew: How Americans feel about ‘cancel culture’ and offensive speech in 6 charts

By Filings on Thu, 08/19/21
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“The internet has amplified these debates and fostered new questions about tone and tenor in recent years. Here’s a look at how adults in the United States see these and related issues, based on Pew Research Center surveys.” - Pew

Pew: Americans’ views about billionaires have grown somewhat more negative since 2020

By Filings on Fri, 07/30/21
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“A growing share of U.S. adults say it’s a bad thing for the country that some people have personal fortunes of a billion dollars or more, though a majority continue to say it is neither good nor bad” - Pew

Pew: Religious Americans less likely to believe intelligent life exists on other planets

By Filings on Thu, 07/29/21
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“Religious and secular thinkers alike have long discussed what the implications for religion would be if humans discovered intelligent life on other planets. In the United States, highly religious adults are much more skeptical…” - Pew

56% of Americans support more regulation of major technology companies

By Filings on Wed, 07/21/21
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“Growing shares of Americans think major technology companies should face more government regulation, and a majority say that these firms have too much economic power and influence” - Pew

Pew: Most Indians, including most Hindus, do not practice yoga

By Filings on Wed, 07/07/21
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Yoga is “mentioned in ancient, sacred scriptures of Hinduism” and encouraged by the Indian government. “Still, a new Pew Research Center survey shows that most Indians do not practice yoga. Just about a third of Indian adults (35%) say they ever practice yoga” - Pew

Denominational switching among U.S. Jews: Reform Judaism gains, Conservative Judaism declines

By Filings on Thu, 06/24/21
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“Overall, nearly nine-in-ten U.S. adults who were raised Jewish (88%) are still Jewish today. This includes 70% who identify with the Jewish religion and 18% who don’t identify with any religion but who consider themselves Jewish in some other way” - Pew

Pew: How younger U.S. Jews are similar to – and different from – older U.S. Jews

By Filings on Wed, 06/09/21
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“…young adults tend to be less religious than older adults, at least by conventional measures such as whether they believe in God and how often they attend worship services. Jewish Americans, who make up 2.4% of the U.S. adult population, are an exception: The youngest Jewish adults are just as religious as the oldest on some of these measures” - Pew

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