RE: I was wondering about religion in America
April 26, 2014 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2014 at 12:29 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_attendance
More than 40% of the country attends mass weekly. This is about the same rate as conservative Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_i...ted_States
Mississippi is the highest with 63%, which is as high as Poland.
Vermont is the lowest with 23%, which is still higher than 16 of the 25 countries listed in that chart in the first Wikipeda article.
Many countries have almost as high rates of Christianity as we do (such as Autralia), but with WAY lower rates of church attendance (such as Autralia). I think this suggests that religion behaves differently depending on where you go. I hear that Australians consider it a social faux pas to talk about your religion in public.
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/Manuscript...an2009.pdf
This is an interesting study on religion. Apparently church-, mosque-, and synagogue-attendance are correlated with admiring suicide attacks against religious outgroups, [edited] but it isn't correlated with frequency of prayer if you control for attendance. Of course, there are probably various motivations behind attendance, so we can't generalize. [/edited]
More than 40% of the country attends mass weekly. This is about the same rate as conservative Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_i...ted_States
Mississippi is the highest with 63%, which is as high as Poland.
Vermont is the lowest with 23%, which is still higher than 16 of the 25 countries listed in that chart in the first Wikipeda article.
Many countries have almost as high rates of Christianity as we do (such as Autralia), but with WAY lower rates of church attendance (such as Autralia). I think this suggests that religion behaves differently depending on where you go. I hear that Australians consider it a social faux pas to talk about your religion in public.
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~ara/Manuscript...an2009.pdf
This is an interesting study on religion. Apparently church-, mosque-, and synagogue-attendance are correlated with admiring suicide attacks against religious outgroups, [edited] but it isn't correlated with frequency of prayer if you control for attendance. Of course, there are probably various motivations behind attendance, so we can't generalize. [/edited]
