Talk Islam

razib

• 11:29:49 am on June 23, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: religion, survey

  religion in america survey:

  Belief in God or Universal Spirit - Do not believe in god

  evangelical xtian - 0%
  mainline xtian - 1%
  historically black denom - 0%
  catholics - 1%
  mormons - 0%
  orthodox - 4%
  jews - 10%
  muslims - 5%
  buddhists - 19%
  hindus -5%

  what’s going on here? i was a bit surprised by the fact that 5% of muslims said they didn’t believe in god…but, i believe like judaism and hinduism islam in the united states is a minority religion which has ethno-cultural saliences for people raised in that tradition. therefore, the tendency to continue to identify as muslims in some way despite an open admission of atheism.

   

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