Tag: Pew Research Center
Pew’s New Analysis Shows 42% of US Jews Reject their Religion
No other religious group came even close in terms of the number of members born to the group who want to have nothing at all to do with its beliefs.
Pew: Jews Harassed Worldwide Despite their Minuscule Percentage of Planet’s Population
Altogether, 2.2 billion Christians suffered harassment in 144 countries in 2016. 1.6 billion Muslims were harassed in 142 countries. 15 million Jews were harassed in 87 countries.
Pew: By 2040, Muslims Will Replace Jews as US Second-Largest Religious Group
The growth rate of the Muslim population has been around 100,000 per year, which Pew attribute to higher fertility rates among Muslim Americans, and the continued Muslim immigration to the US.
Pew: Muslim Women More Anti-American than their Men
Muslim women are more likely than men to say they stand out in society due to their physical appearance – 49% compared with only 27% of Muslim men.
Pew: Muslim Babies Will Outnumber Christian Births by 2035
In Germany, there were an estimated 1.4 million more Christian deaths than births between 2010 and 2015.
Pew: Americans Warm Toward Religious Groups, Especially Jews
The survey found that Americans express warm feelings toward Jews, with half of US adults rating Jews at 67 degrees or higher on the 0-to-100 scale.
Pew: Close to 1 Million Citizens of Banned Muslim Countries Entered US Since 2006
Refugees from Syria did not start to enter the US in large numbers until fiscal 2016, but 86% of Somalia’s 72,652 entrants from fiscal 2006 to 2015 were refugees.
Study: Muslims Are a Demographic Ticking Time Bomb – For the Whole Planet
In the US, Muslims are expected to double from 0.9% of the population in 2010 to 2.1% by 2050, based on recent demographic and migration patterns.
Pew: Republicans Love Israel, Democrats Only So-So
The Pew survey finds that the American public has a positive opinion of the United Nations, although there, too, the gap is wide between the two parties.
Jews 2nd Largest Religious Group in 115th Congress
The group that's most underrepresented are the religiously unaffiliated, which accounts for 23% of the general public but is represented by only 0.2% of Congress.
The Sky Is Falling
“Orthodox birthrates in just the last few years have been soaring,” said Jewish sociologist Steven M. Cohen. “The sky is falling for the rest of the population.”
The Good News and the Bad for Orthodoxy
Even though 10% of Jewry identifies as Orthodox, 14% to 17% say they were raised Orthodox.