{"id":10,"date":"2009-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/jnavarro\/2009\/09\/22\/american_nones_the_profile_of_the_no_religion_population\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:29:27","slug":"american_nones_the_profile_of_the_no_religion_population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/2009\/09\/22\/american_nones_the_profile_of_the_no_religion_population\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: Americans Who Don&#8217;t Identify with a Religion No Longer a Fringe Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Americans Who Don&#8217;t Identify with a Religion No Longer a Fringe Group<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Nones&#8221; now largely mirror Mainstream America<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HARTFORD, Conn. &#8211; The 34 million American adults who don&#8217;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 study by Trinity College researchers, <em>American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report Highlights<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org\/reports\/NONES_08.pdf\">(click for full report)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 1990s was the decade when the &#8220;secular boom&#8221; occurred &#8211; each year 1.3 million more adult Americans joined the ranks of the Nones. Since 2001 the annual increase has halved to 660,000 a year. (Fig.3.1)<\/li>\n<li>Whereas Nones are presently 15% of the total adult U.S. population, 22% of Americans aged 18-29 years self-identify as Nones. (Fig.1.2)<\/li>\n<li>In terms of Belonging (self-identification) 1 in 6 Americans is presently of No Religion, while in terms of Belief and Behavior the ratio is higher around 1 in 4. (Fig. 1.17)<\/li>\n<li>Regarding belief in the divine, most Nones are neither atheists nor theists but rather agnostics and deists (59%) and perhaps best described as skeptics. (Fig.1.17)<\/li>\n<li>The most significant difference between the religious and non-religious populations is a gender gap. (Fig. 1.17)\n<ul>\n<li>Whereas 19% of American men are Nones only 12% of American women are Nones. (Fig. 2.1)<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>The gender ratio among Nones is 60 males for every 40 females. (Fig.1.1)<\/li>\n<li>Women are less likely to switch out of religion than men.<\/li>\n<li>Women are also less likely to stay non-religious when they are born and raised in a non-religious family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Most Nones are 1st generation &#8211; only 32% of &#8220;current&#8221; Nones report they were None at age 12. (Fig.1.10)<\/li>\n<li>24% of current Nones (and 35% of 1st generation or &#8220;new&#8221; Nones) are former Catholics. (Fig. 1.10)<\/li>\n<li>Geography remains a factor &#8211; more than 1 in 5 people in certain regions (the West, New England) are Nones.<\/li>\n<li>Class is not a distinguishing characteristic: Nones are not different from the generalpopulation by education or income.<br \/>\n(Figs 1.6 &amp; 1.7)<\/li>\n<li>Race is a declining factor in differentiating Nones. Latinos have tripled their proportion among Nones from 1990-2008 from 4% to 12%. (Fig.1.4)<\/li>\n<li>The ethnic\/racial profile of Nones shows Asians, Irish and Jews are the most secularized ethnic origin groups. One-third of the Nones claim Irish ancestry. (Figs 1.4 &amp; 1.5)<\/li>\n<li>Nones are much more likely to believe in human evolution (61%) than the general American public (38%). (Fig. 1.15)<\/li>\n<li>Politically, 21% of the nation&#8217;s independents are Nones, as are 16% of Democrats and 8% of Republicans. In 1990, 12% of independents were Nones, as were 6% of Democrats and 6% of Republicans.\u00a0(Fig. 2.1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Who Don&#8217;t Identify with a Religion No Longer a Fringe Group &#8220;Nones&#8221; now largely mirror Mainstream America HARTFORD, Conn. &#8211; The 34 million American adults who don&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/2009\/09\/22\/american_nones_the_profile_of_the_no_religion_population\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3,16,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/aris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}