Religious tradition among divorced or separated adults by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among divorced or separated adults by religious group
% of divorced or separated adults 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% | 17% | 42% | < 1% | 17% | 1% | 1% | 11% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 7% | < 1% | 1,490 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 24% | 33% | < 1% | 8% | 1% | 1% | 17% | 2% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 10% | < 1% | 1,180 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 23% | 38% | < 1% | 12% | 1% | < 1% | 10% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | < 1% | 11% | < 1% | 139 |
Not the word of God | 1% | 18% | 7% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 2% | 14% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 46% | 1% | 1,535 |
Other/don't know | 1% | 20% | 25% | < 1% | 4% | 1% | 1% | 19% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 6% | 2% | 17% | 1% | 408 |
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