Faith on the Move, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, focuses on the religious affiliation of international migrants, examining patterns of migration among seven major groups: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, adherents of other religions and the religiously unaffiliated. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause deaths and disrupt billions of lives globally, people may turn to religious groups, family, friends, co-workers or other social networks for support. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in the summer of 2020 reveals that more Americans than people in other economically developed countries say the outbreak has bolstered their religious faith and ...

Understanding the Context

The global rise in social hostilities reflected a number of factors, including increases in mob violence related to religion, individuals being assaulted or displaced due to their faith, and incidents where violence was used to enforce religious norms. In Europe, for instance, there were 17 countries where incidents of religion-related mob violence were reported in 2015, up from nine the ... Figures for U.S. adults based on aggregated Pew Research Center political surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019.

Key Insights

Figures for Protestant subgroups and Unitarians come from Pew Research Center’s 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014. “Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 117th Congress Similarly, it is difficult to disentangle the extent to which the upsurge in Orthodox affiliation found in the surveys represents an expression of long-held faith or a genuinely new wave of religious affiliation. It may be that after the fall of the U.S.S.R.

Final Thoughts

in 1991, Russians felt freer to express the religious identities they had quietly maintained during the Soviet era.3 However, given that ... nd Jeremy E. Uecker. 2006. “Finding Faith, Losing Faith: The Prevalence and Context o Religious Transformat during Adolescence.” Review of Religious Research. during young adulthood, it is possible that there may still be additional movement away from these individualized elements of religion ahead, after adolescents reach adulthood.6