Religious Beliefs by Denomination and Religion in America

[Gabe]

Something I found while surfing the net. Its based on a 2008 Pew Foundation survey and has some extremely interesting results:

Here is the full list on whether religion was very important to their lives:

Jehovah’s Witnesses 86%
Mormon 83%
Evangelical 79%
Muslim 72%
Catholic 56%
Mainline Protestant 52%
Hindu 45%
Buddhist 35%
Jewish 31%

List of belief in heaven:

Mormon 95%
Evangelical 86%
Muslim 85%
Catholic 82%
Mainline Protestant 77%
Hindu 51%
Jehovah’s Witnesses 46% [not disbelief, they are taught against this]
Jewish 38%
Buddhist 36%

belief in Hell:

Evangelical 82%
Muslim 80%
Catholic 60%
Mormon 59% [not disbelief, they are taught against this, although vaguely]
Mainline Protestant 56%
Hindu 35%
Buddhist 26%
Jewish 22%
Jehovah’s Witnesses 9% [same as above]

Here are the results for those who read scripture at least weekly:

Jehovah’s Witnesses 83%
Mormon 76%
Evangelical 60%
Muslim 43%
Buddhist 28%
Mainline Protestant 27%
Hindu 23%
Catholic 21%
Jewish 14%

List for percent who pray daily:

Jehovah’s Witnesses 89%
Mormon 82%
Evangelicals 78%
Muslims 71% [please note that Muslims are meant to pray five times a day]
Hindus 62%
Catholics 58%
Mainline Protestants 53%
Buddhists 45%
Jews 26%

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