Mormon Study Shows Regional Concentration and Growing Republicanism Analysis based on Trinity College’s American Religious Identification Survey HARTFORD, CT, December 14, 2011 – Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons as they are popularly known, are twice as likely to favor the Republican Party than American adults who belong to [...]
In this video Juhem Navarro-Rivera (Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture) explains the rise of Nones in the Latino community in the United States between 1990 & 2008. The proportion of Latino Nones doubled from 6% to 12% and the number quadrupled from just under 1 Million to almost [...]
by Barry A. Kosmin, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Delivered at SSSR Annual Conference 2010, Baltimore, MD (scroll for full essay) Religion and the Intelligentsia The relationship between educational attainment and religious identity and behavior is contested in the academic literature. Both education and religion have been identified as independent variables. However, in general society, exposure [...]
[Para español oprima aquí] HARTFORD, Conn. – The growth in the Latino population in the United States from 1990 through 2008 has helped the Catholic Church maintain its position as the nation’s largest religious tradition, a new study by researchers at Trinity College shows. Over the 18-year period, the influx of 9 million Latino Catholics [...]
ARIS 2008 data published by U.S. Bureau of the Census in the Statistical Abstract of the United States (130th Edition). Click here for larger image
Americans Who Don’t Identify with a Religion No Longer a Fringe Group “Nones” now largely mirror Mainstream America HARTFORD, Conn. – The 34 million American adults who don’t identify with any particular religious group reflect the general population in terms of marital status, educational attainment, racial and ethnic makeup, and income, according to a new [...]
By Barry A. Kosmin World Union of Jewish Studies, August 2009 The author presents data from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) Time Series, which tracks changes in the religious loyalties of the American public. He looks at the three surveys which replicate the methodology of the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey. These surveys contain [...]
For full ARIS 2008 Summary Report click here. Baptists include all denominations and all races in the Baptist Tradition. Methodists include all the Methodist churches and denominations and all races. Lutherans include all the Lutheran churches and synods and all races. (For national population figures for these three groups see Table 3 of the ARIS [...]