{"id":73162,"date":"2018-08-02T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73162"},"modified":"2018-08-02T06:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:47:32","slug":"pewr-facttank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73162","title":{"rendered":"(PewR FactTank) Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qyVT2WiomV\">https:\/\/t.co\/qyVT2WiomV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fp4KLMxkLS\">pic.twitter.com\/fp4KLMxkLS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pewresearch\/status\/1024538971043491840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>In 1966, Time magazine famously examined whether the United States was on a path to secularization when it published its now-iconic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/isgoddead\/\">\u201cIs God Dead?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0cover. However, the question proved premature: The U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/04\/07\/is-god-dead-no-but-belief-has-declined-slightly\/\">remains a robustly religious<\/a>\u00a0country and the most devout of all the rich Western democracies.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Americans pray more often, are more likely to attend weekly religious services and ascribe higher importance to faith in their lives than adults in other wealthy, Western democracies, such as Canada, Australia and most European states, according to a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2018\/06\/13\/the-age-gap-in-religion-around-the-world\/\">Pew Research Center study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, more than half of American adults (55%) say they pray daily, compared with 25% in Canada, 18% in Australia and 6% in Great Britain. (The average European country stands at 22%.) Actually, when it comes to their prayer habits, Americans are more like people in many poorer, developing nations \u2013 including South Africa (52%), Bangladesh (57%) and Bolivia (56%) \u2013 than people in richer countries.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the U.S. is the only country out of 102 examined in the study that has higher-than-average levels of both prayer\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0wealth. In every other country surveyed with a gross domestic product of more than $30,000 per person, fewer than 40% of adults say they pray every day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/07\/31\/americans-are-far-more-religious-than-adults-in-other-wealthy-nations\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations https:\/\/t.co\/qyVT2WiomV pic.twitter.com\/fp4KLMxkLS &mdash; Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 1, 2018 In 1966, Time magazine famously examined whether the United States was on a path to secularization when it published<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73162\">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":[209,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162","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=73162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73167,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73162\/revisions\/73167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}