{"id":1254,"date":"2020-05-01T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feedmethewordtoday.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2020-07-24T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:28:33","slug":"poll-americans-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udiwonder.com\/word\/poll-americans-say-their-religious-faith-has-grown-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"[POLL]: Americans say their religious faith has grown amid the coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the closure of religious institutions and places of worship across the country, one-quarter of\u00a0Americans say their religious faith has strengthened amid on the ongoing coronavirus<\/a> pandemic, according to a new Pew Survey<\/a>\u00a0released on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Among American Jews, the vast majority (69%) have said that their faith<\/a> has not changed as a result of the coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The poll highlights the overall trend of religious attitudes in the United States, in addition to highlighting differing results according to its demographic breakdown. Accordingly, approximately one-quarter (24%) of US adults say their their faith as grown in the context of the coronavirus<\/a> outbreak, whereas just 2% of Americans have seen a weakening of their faith. A plurality of Americans (47%) say their faith<\/a> has been unaffected by the coronavirus<\/a>, or that the question is not applicable due to a lack of faith (26%).<\/div>\n
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Opinions of this issue show a variation according to religious affiliation and religiosity, in which Christians are more likely among all other groups to say their faith<\/a> has grown, with four-in-ten evangelicals (42%), one-quarter of Catholics (27%) and historically African-American church affiliates (56%), reporting this feeling. This is in contrast to less than one-quarter (22%) of mainline Protestants feeling a growth in faith.<\/div>\n
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Among American Jews, the vast majority (69%) have said that their faith has not changed as a result of the coronavirus<\/a>, or that the question is not applicable because of a lack of faith (22%), in contrast to 7% of Americans Jews who said their faith has grown. For those American Jews professing a lack of faith<\/a> (atheism), roughly a quarter say (26%) their faith has not changed, while the majority say they were not religious (65%) prior to the coronavirus<\/a> outbreak.<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0survey\u00a0was conducted from April 20-26, and included a sample of 10,139 US adults who are part of Pew’s American Trends Panel.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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