<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version="2.0"><channel><link>http://www.pewforum.org/</link><title>PewForum.org | All Importance of Religion Feeds</title><description>The degree of importance individuals assign to religion in their lives 
is one indicator of religious commitment, with some people saying 
religion plays an integral role in their lives and others saying it is 
less important or unimportant to them.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright: (C) Copyright 2009 The Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life. All rights reserved.</copyright><managingEditor>info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)</managingEditor><webMaster>info@pewforum.org (PewForum Info)</webMaster><ttl>60</ttl><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><url>http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedImages/_content/defaultPublicationThumb(1).gif</url><title>PewForum.org | All Importance of Religion Feeds</title><link>http://www.pewforum.org/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:25:19 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:25:19 GMT</lastBuildDate></image><item><title>Religion Among the Millennials</title><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less 
religious than older Americans. Yet in other ways, Millennials remain 
fairly traditional in their religious beliefs and practices. </description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/Age/Religion-Among-the-Millennials.aspx</link></item><item><title>How Religious Is Your State?</title><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Which of the 50 states has the most religious population? Since there are many ways to define "religious," there is no single answer to this question. But to give a sense of how the states stack up, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life used polling data to rank them on four measures. </description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/How-Religious-Is-Your-State-.aspx</link></item><item><title>The "Zeal of the Convert": Is It the Real Deal? </title><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A recent Pew Forum analysis finds that people who have switched faiths (or joined a faith after being raised unaffiliated with a religion) are indeed slightly more religious than those who have remained in their childhood faith.</description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/The-Zeal-of-the-Convert-Is-It-the-Real-Deal.aspx</link></item><item><title>A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S.</title><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>This report, based on data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, explores Mormons' unique place in the American religious landscape and
is divided into three parts: demographic characteristics, religious
beliefs and practices, and social and political views.</description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Mormon/A-Portrait-of-Mormons-in-the-US.aspx</link></item><item><title>The Stronger Sex -- Spiritually Speaking</title><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An analysis of data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey,
conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion &amp; Public
Life, finds that women are more religious than men on a variety of
measures.</description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/The-Stronger-Sex----Spiritually-Speaking.aspx</link></item><item><title>African-Americans and Religion</title><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A new analysis by the Pew Forum finds that African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. population as a whole.</description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/African-Americans-and-Religion.aspx</link></item><item><title>A Religious Portrait of African-Americans</title><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>While the U.S. is generally considered a highly religious nation,
African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures
than the U.S. population as a whole, including level of affiliation
with a religion, attendance at religious services, frequency of prayer
and religion's importance in life.</description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/A-Religious-Portrait-of-African-Americans.aspx</link></item><item><title>Religion in China on the Eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics</title><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>According to a 2006 survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 31% of 
the Chinese public considers religion to be very or somewhat important 
in their lives, compared with only 11% who say religion is not at all 
important. </description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/Importance-of-Religion/Religion-in-China-on-the-Eve-of-the-2008-Beijing-Olympics.aspx</link></item><item><title>Secular Europe and Religious America: Implications for Transatlantic Relations</title><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life and the Council on Foreign Relations co-hosted a luncheon roundtable entitled "Secular Europe and Religious America: Implications for Transatlantic Relations" on April 21, 2005 at the Pew Resea...</description><link>http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Secular-Europe-and-Religious-America-Implications-for-Transatlantic-Relations.aspx</link></item></channel></rss>
