Religious tradition among adults who seldom or never meditate by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never meditate by religious group
% of adults who seldom or never meditate who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 16% | 46% | < 1% | 9% | 1% | 1% | 14% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 3,224 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 28% | 27% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 2% | 21% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 12% | < 1% | 4,226 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 24% | 42% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 2% | 14% | 2% | 3% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | 315 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 17% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 4% | 12% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 54% | 1% | 6,353 |
Other/don't know | < 1% | 22% | 13% | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 2% | 19% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 30% | 1% | 1,054 |
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