Racial and ethnic composition among Mainline Protestants who believe in Heaven by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among Mainline Protestants who believe in Heaven by race/ethnicity

% of Mainline Protestants who believe in Heaven who identify as…

Religious denominationWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
American Baptist Churches USA73%11%1%10%5%417
Episcopal Church89%4%1%3%2%326
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)95%2%1%1%1%534
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.)72%14%< 1%10%5%102
Presbyterian Church (USA)87%5%4%4%1%329
United Church of Christ87%9%< 1%1%2%154
United Methodist Church94%1%1%2%2%1,365
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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