NEW YORK (AP) β A newly-released survey finds that the 77 percent of American adults who continue to identify with a faith group have largely stayed as religiously engaged as they were in 2007.
The Pew Research Center’s findings are based in part on a 2014 telephone survey of more than 35,000 people.
It found that two-thirds of religiously affiliated adults said faith was very important to them and they prayed daily, nearly unchanged from 2007, the last time Pew conducted its U.S. Religious Landscape Study. About 6-in-10 said they attend worship services at least once or twice a month, a rate similar to the earlier study.
But a higher percentage say they regularly read scripture, participate in small prayer or study groups and share their faith with others.
In an initial release of data last May, Pew researchers found that the 23 percent of Americans who don’t affiliate with a religion have become the second-largest group in total numbers behind evangelicals, at 25 percent.
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