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Examination of religious beliefs and practices provides insight into religion’s influence on individuals and communities worldwide. Explore Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about religious beliefs and practices:

 

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POLL November 5, 2008
How the Faithful Voted
President-elect Barack Obama made a concerted effort to reach out to people of faith during the 2008 presidential campaign, and early exit polls show that this outreach may have paid off on Election Day.
POLL October 23, 2008
How Church Attendance Affects Religious Voting Patterns
The latest report from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that, as in previous elections, differences in voting patterns by religion are amplified when church attendance is taken into account
INTERVIEW October 16, 2008
Ten Years of Promoting Religious Freedom Through U.S. Foreign Policy
Oct. 27 marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the International Religious Freedom Act, a law that made the promotion of religious freedom a basic aim of U.S. foreign policy.
POLL September 12, 2008
Palin V.P. Nomination Puts Pentecostalism in the Spotlight
From the time she was a teenager until 2002, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin attended a church affiliated with the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal Christian denomination in the U.S.
INTERVIEW July 17, 2008
The Case For Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An Interview with Jonathan Moreno
University of Pennsylvania professor Jonathan Moreno discusses the ethical and moral grounds for supporting embryonic stem cell research.
INTERVIEW July 17, 2008
The Case Against Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An Interview with Yuval Levin
Yuval Levin, author of Tyranny of Reason and Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, discusses the ethical and moral grounds for opposing embryonic stem cell research.
POLL June 23, 2008
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans ages 18 and older, this extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT June 23, 2008
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Report II
In a noon conference call for journalists, Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, together with fellows John Green and Greg Smith, released the second report of the Forum's path-breaking U.S. Religious Landscape Survey...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 6, 2008
American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.
POLL May 1, 2008
Religion in China on the Eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
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.
INTERVIEW April 17, 2008
The 'Evidence for Belief': An Interview with Francis Collins
for Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project and an evangelical Christian, scientific knowledge complements rather than contradicts belief in God.
INTERVIEW April 4, 2008
Pope Benedict's Papacy Still Coming Into Focus for Americans
Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now PopeBenedict XVI) in 1980. While Pope Benedict is less favorably viewed than his predecessor, the majority of Americans continue to view him favorably. As Pope Benedict XVI prepares to introduce...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT April 1, 2008
The Pope Comes to America
Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the U.S. as pontiff comes amid a turbulent election year. He has planned stops at the White House, the U.N. and the Sept. 11 "Ground Zero" site.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT March 4, 2008
Between Relativism and Fundamentalism: Is There a Middle Ground?
Peter Berger, an eminent sociologist of religion and a lifelong Lutheran, asked himself several years ago: "Would my moral convictions change if I woke up tomorrow as an atheist?"
INTERVIEW February 14, 2008
UCLA Study: Students Become More Spiritual in College
A study finds that while attendance at religious services decreased dramatically for most students between their freshman and junior years, the students' overall level of spirituality, as defined by the researchers, increases.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 4, 2007
The Religion Factor in the 2008 Election
Video Highlights Watch more event videos on the multimedia page. Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.John ...
EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 3, 2007
Religious Literacy: What Every American Should Know
Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.
ANALYSIS July 6, 2007
How Muslims Compare With Other Religious Americans
Although Muslims constitute a small minority in the United States, and their holy book and many of their religious rituals are distinctly their own, Muslim Americans are by no means "the other" when it comes to religious life or politics in the United States.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT May 14, 2007
Mormonism and Politics: Are They Compatible?
Richard Bushman, an emeritus professor at Columbia University and author of several books about Mormon history, discussed the relationship between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and American politics over the past two centuries.
EVENT TRANSCRIPT April 25, 2007
Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion
In a telephone conference call for journalists, the directors of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center discussed the findings of an unprecedented survey  on how Latinos are transforming the religious landscape in the U.S. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Hispanic Center discussed the findings of an unprecedented survey on how Latinos are transforming the religious landscape in the U.S.
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