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ANALYSIS March 8, 2012

Faith on the Move

This study focuses on the religious affiliation of international migrants, examining patterns of migration among seven major groups: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, adherents of other religions and the religiously unaffiliated.

ANALYSIS November 21, 2011

Lobbying for the Faithful

A new report gives a brief history of organized religious advocacy in Washington, D.C., and examines the major characteristics of religion-related advocacy. A related online directory includes profiles of 216 groups currently or recently active in the nation’s capital.

GRAPHIC April 28, 2011

National Day of Prayer

A federal appeals court recently overturned a lower court ruling that had declared the National Day of Prayer to be unconstitutional. The day of prayer, established by Congress in 1952, occurs annually on the first Thursday in May, which this year falls on May 5.

EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 17, 2009

Global Restrictions on Religion

More than half a century ago, the United Nations affirmed the principle of religious freedom in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, defining it as "the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion."

POLL September 9, 2009

Muslims Widely Seen As Facing Discrimination

Eight years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Americans see Muslims as facing more discrimination inside the U.S. than other major religious groups. Nearly six-in-ten adults (58%) say that Muslims are subject to a lot of discrimination, far more than say the same about Jews, evangelical Christians, atheists or Mormons.

POLL June 4, 2009

Brides, Grooms Often Have Different Faiths

Data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life in 2007, shows that many marriages are between people of different religious faiths.

POLL February 10, 2009

Religiously Mixed Couples: Cupid's Arrow Often Hits People of Different Faiths

More than one-in-four (27%) American adults who are married or living with a partner are in religiously mixed relationships. If people from different Protestant denominational families are included, nearly four-in-ten (37%) couples are religiously mixed.

ANALYSIS February 4, 2009

Religious Groups' Views on Evolution

A breakdown of 13 major religious groups' views on the issue.

POLL February 4, 2009

Religious Differences on the Question of Evolution

The Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey found that views on evolution differ widely across religious groups.

POLL January 30, 2009

Income Distribution Within U.S. Religious Groups

Surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life find that income varies greatly within and across American religious groups.

GRAPHIC January 15, 2009

Abortion Views by Religious Affiliation

Abortion remains a divisive issue in the U.S., with a slim majority (53%) in favor of keeping it legal in all or most cases and four-in-ten in favor of making it illegal in all or most cases. However, the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey finds that most religious traditions in the U.S. come down firmly on one side or the other.

POLL December 18, 2008

Many Americans Say Other Faiths Can Lead to Eternal Life

A majority of all American Christians (52%) think that at least some non-Christian faiths can lead to eternal life. Indeed, among Christians who believe many religions can lead to eternal life, 80% name at least one non-Christian faith that can do so.

ANALYSIS July 17, 2008

Religious Groups' Official Positions on Stem Cell Research

Where 17 religious groups stand on the issue of stem cell research.

POLL September 26, 2007

Public Expresses Mixed Views of Islam, Mormonism

The Muslim and Mormon religions have gained increasing national visibility in recent years. Yet most Americans say they know little or nothing about either religion's practices, and large majorities say that their own religion is very different from Islam and the Mormon religion.

ANALYSIS August 21, 2007

Religion and the Presidential Vote: A Tale of Two Gaps

For the presidential candidates and the pundits who write about them, one concern in the 2008 campaign is the "religion gap" - shorthand for the religious differences between Republican and Democratic voters.

INTERVIEW July 11, 2007

Looking for a Way Out: Rethinking the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Few Palestinian families have deeper roots in Jerusalem than Sari Nusseibeh's. In the 7th century, immediately after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, the caliph Omar the Great entrusted one of Nusseibeh's ancestors with the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

ANALYSIS May 30, 2007

A Six-Day War: Its Aftermath in American Public Opinion

For six days, beginning June 5, 1967, Israel battled Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As a result of the fighting, Israel won control of the Sinai desert, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

EVENT TRANSCRIPT December 4, 2006

Israel and the Future of Zionism

Israel and the Future of Zionism 2006-12-04 Key West, Florida Some of the nation's leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2006 for the Pew Forum's biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Peter Berkowitz, a Hoover Institution fellow, and Ari Shavit, a

POLL December 1, 2006

Religion and the 2006 Elections

Exit polls show that the religious divide that has come to characterize American politics persisted in the 2006 election; white evangelicals and those who attend church frequently continued to support Republicans by large margins, while secular vo...

INTERVIEW May 5, 2006

Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism

In his new book, Überpower: The Imperial Temptation of America, Josef Joffe offers an analysis of the danger and burden of America's standing as a singular global power. He also investigates the similarities between classical anti-Semitism an...

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