{"id":34223,"date":"2011-03-11T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34223"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:27:16","slug":"demographics-of-the-non-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/11\/demographics-of-the-non-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics of the Non-Religious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data from the American Religious Identification Survey<\/a> (collected in 2008) reveals some interesting things about the population of Americans that do not identify with organized religions: atheists, agnostics, and the “spiritual but not religious.” \u00a0Most of the non-religious grew up with religious parents. \u00a0Only 17% report that neither of their parents identified with a religion:<\/p>\n

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Being non-religious does not\u00a0correlate with income or education:<\/p>\n

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Instead, it’s strongest correlation is with gender. \u00a0Women are more likely than men to believe in God, more likely to convert to a faith if raised as a non-believer, and less likely to leave a faith they are raised in.<\/p>\n

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Younger people are also more likely to be non-religious:<\/p>\n

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Americans with Irish ancestry make up a significant percentage of the non-religious. They account for about 12% of Americans<\/a>, but about 1\/3rd of all non-religious:<\/p>\n

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More details at American Nones<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data from the American Religious Identification Survey (collected in 2008) reveals some interesting things about the population of Americans that do not identify with organized religions: atheists, agnostics, and the “spiritual but not religious.” \u00a0Most of the non-religious grew up with religious parents. \u00a0Only 17% report that neither of their parents identified with a religion: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,29,55,272,693,3875,1757,42],"class_list":["post-34223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-marriagefamily","tag-public-opinion","tag-raceethnicity-jews","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34223"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59037,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34223\/revisions\/59037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}