{"id":68700,"date":"2018-03-01T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68700"},"modified":"2018-03-01T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:30:07","slug":"pr-facttank-5-facts-about-u-s-evangelical-protestants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68700","title":{"rendered":"(PR FactTank) 5 facts about U.S. evangelical Protestants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><big id=\"number-1\" class=\"honkin-number\">1 <\/big><strong>About a quarter (25.4%) of U.S. adults identify with evangelical Protestantism, according to Pew Research Center\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/05\/12\/americas-changing-religious-landscape\/\"><strong>2014 Religious Landscape Study<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0In that survey, evangelical Protestants are identified mainly on the basis of their affiliation with evangelical denominations (such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod or the Presbyterian Church in America, to name just a few) or with nondenominational evangelical churches. Evangelical Protestantism is the nation\u2019s single largest religious group, exceeding the size of the nation\u2019s Catholic (20.8%), mainline Protestant (14.7%) and religiously unaffiliated (22.8%) populations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><big id=\"number-2\" class=\"honkin-number\">2 <\/big><strong>The evangelical Protestant share of the population has dipped slightly in recent years (from 26.3% in 2007 to 25.4% in 2014), but more slowly than the mainline Protestant and Catholic populations.\u00a0<\/strong>Though the\u00a0<em>percentage<\/em>\u00a0of Americans who identify with evangelical Protestant denominations has ticked downward, the absolute\u00a0<em>number<\/em>\u00a0of evangelicals appears to be rising as the overall U.S. population grows. In 2014, there were roughly 62.2 million evangelical Protestant adults, up from about 59.8 million in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><big id=\"number-3\" class=\"honkin-number\">3 <\/big><strong>Three-quarters (76%) of evangelical Protestants in the U.S. are white, but\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2015\/05\/12\/chapter-3-demographic-profiles-of-religious-groups\/#race-and-ethnicity-of-religious-groups\"><strong>the share of evangelicals who are not white is growing<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/03\/01\/5-facts-about-u-s-evangelical-protestants\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 About a quarter (25.4%) of U.S. adults identify with evangelical Protestantism, according to Pew Research Center\u2019s\u00a02014 Religious Landscape Study.\u00a0In that survey, evangelical Protestants are identified mainly on the basis of their affiliation with evangelical denominations (such as the Southern<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68700\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,419,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68701,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68700\/revisions\/68701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}