Vendors wait for customers at Black Owned Bos.’s weekend market in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood on Sept. 22, 2024. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) More than one-in-five Black adults in the United States say owning a business is essential to their personal definition of financial success, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey. While Black-owned businesses have grown significantly in the U.S. in recent years, they still make up a small share of overall firms and revenue, according to our analysis of federal data. How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine the characteristics of…
Author: Janakee Chavda
By global standards, the U.S. has a relatively low level of religious nationalism, but it stands out from other high-income countries National and royal flags fly outside religious sites in Thailand, Turkey, the U.S. and Israel. (Clockwise from top left: Vera Tikhonova, Westend61, Samuel Corum and Paul Souders, all via Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this survey to examine the role of religion in public life in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North Africa region, North America and sub-Saharan Africa. The countries have a variety of historically predominant religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism,…
Large shares of adults in most of the 36 countries we surveyed say religion helps society rather than harms it. Most also say religion encourages tolerance, not intolerance. But people are slightly more divided about whether religion encourages superstitious thinking. Religion is generally seen more positively by: People in middle-income countries, compared with those in high-income countries Religiously affiliated people, compared with those who are unaffiliated People who say they pray daily, compared with those who pray less often Does religion help society? Views of religion’s impact on society are broadly positive. A 36-country median of 77% say religion mostly…
When asked about their national leader’s connection to religion, people are generally more likely to say it is very important to have a leader of their country who stands up for people with their religious beliefs than to have a leader whose religious beliefs are the same as their own, or to have a leader who has strong religious beliefs even if they are not the same as their own. In Kenya, for instance, 62% of adults say it is very important to have a president who stands up for people with their religious beliefs. Meanwhile, 55% of Kenyans say…
Across the 36 countries surveyed, people’s views on the importance of religion to national identity vary widely. Large shares in middle-income countries say being a member of the historically predominant religion in their country is very important to truly sharing the national identity – for example, to being truly Filipino or truly Nigerian. In high-income countries, though, many instead say religion is not at all important to national identity. We asked people in 36 countries whether it’s important to be a member of a particular religion in order to “truly” share the national identity. In each country, we selected the…
We asked people in 35 countries about the influence of specific religious texts on their national laws. The texts in question varied by country: For example, adults in predominantly Christian countries were asked about the influence of the Bible. And in Muslim-majority countries, they were asked about the influence of the Quran. In most middle-income countries: Majorities say the historically predominant religion’s text should have either a great deal or a fair amount of influence on the laws of their country. People are more likely to say religious texts should take precedence over the will of the people if the…
In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – specifically, whether religious law should be the official or state law for people who share their religion, and whether their country can be both a democratic country and a Muslim or Jewish country. We find that large majorities of Muslims in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria believe sharia, or Islamic law, should be the official law for Muslims in their country. Much smaller shares of Muslims in Israel and Turkey agree. Among Israelis who are…
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Laura Silver, Associate Director, Global Attitudes ResearchJonathan Evans, Senior ResearcherMaria Smerkovich, Research AssociateSneha Gubbala, Research AnalystManolo Corichi, Research AnalystWilliam Miner, Research Analyst Dorene Asare-Marfo, Senior Panel ManagerPeter Bell, Associate Director, Design and ProductionJanakee Chavda, Associate Digital ProducerLaura Clancy, Research AnalystAlan Cooperman, Director, Religion ResearchMoira Fagan, Research AssociateJanell Fetterolf, Senior ResearcherShannon Greenwood, Digital Production ManagerSofia Hernandez Ramones, Research AssistantChristine Huang, Research AssociateAnna Jackson, Editorial AssistantDavid Kent, Senior Copy EditorHannah Klein, Senior Communications ManagerGar Meng Leong, Communications ManagerKirsten Lesage, Research AssociateJordan Lippert, Research AnalystCarolyn Lau, International…
About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2024 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone, face-to-face and online interviews conducted under the direction of Gallup, Langer Research Associates, Social Research Centre and Verian. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. Here are more details about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs. The American Trends Panel survey methodology Results for the United States are based on surveys conducted on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do…
Küresel standartlara göre ABD’de dini milliyetçilik nispeten düşük düzeydedir ancak diğer yüksek gelirli ülkelere kıyasla öne çıkmaktadır Bu basın bülteni orijinal İngilizceden Türkçeye çevrilmiştir. Otuz altı ülkeyi kapsayan yeni bir Pew Research Center anketinde orta gelirli ülkelerde yaşayan insanların yüksek gelirli ülkelerde yaşayan insanlara göre “dinî milliyetçi” (religious nationalists) olma olasılıklarının daha yüksek olduğu bulundu. Ancak dinî milliyetçiler anket yapılan hiçbir ülkede nüfusun çoğunluğunu oluşturmuyordu. Bu raporda, anketimizde dinin ulusal kimlik ve yönetimdeki rolüyle ilgili dört temel sorunun tamamına karşı güçlü bir dindar tavır takınan ve ülkelerinin tarihsel olarak baskın diniyle özdeşleşen kişiler “dinî milliyetçi” (religious nationalists) olarak sınıflandırılmaktadır. Anket…