1. pewresearch.org

    Oct 11, 2023Like the U.S. public as a whole, a growing percentage of Asian Americans are not affiliated with any religion, and the share who identify as Christian has declined, according to a new Pew Research Center survey exploring religion among Asian American adults.. But the survey also shows that 40% of Asian Americans say they feel close to some religious tradition for reasons aside from religion.
  2. pewresearch.org

    Roughly one-in-five Asian Americans (22%) say they were raised as Buddhist, and 2% have switched to Buddhism from other faiths (or from having no particular religion). But 10% of Asian Americans have left Buddhism, for a net loss of eight percentage points. Of all the largest Asian-American religious groups, Hindus have the highest retention rate.
  3. pewresearch.org

    Oct 11, 2023Despite recent declines, Christianity is still the most common religion among Asian Americans. About a third of Asian American adults (34%) say their present religion is Christianity, down from 42% when Pew Research Center last conducted an in-depth survey of Asian Americans, in 2012.. Looking at the largest subgroups within Christianity, Protestants now make up 16% of the Asian American ...
  4. Oct 11, 2023The share of Asian American Christians dropped the most dramatically, from 42% in 2012 to 34% now. Buddhism is also down by 3 percentage points, while Hinduism and Islam have risen slightly, going ...
    Author:Sakshi Venkatraman
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Although 59 percent of Asian Americans believe strongly in the existence of one or more gods, 30 percent identify as "secular" or "somewhat secular." Only 39 percent of Asian American households belong to a local church or temple, due to atheism or adherence to Eastern religions without congregational traditions. [106]
  6. myasianvoice.com

    Oct 27, 2023Christians (43%) and Buddhists (39%) have higher percentage of Asian adults in America who identify or lean toward the Republican party than the overall Asian population in America (33%). Evangelical Protestants stand out as the only Asian religious group in American with 56% who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.
  7. Oct 11, 2023About 11 percent of Asian American adults are Hindu, up one percentage point from 2012, and 6 percent are Muslim. Pew's 7,006-person survey was conducted between July 2022 and January 2023 ...
  8. christianitytoday.com

    Oct 18, 2023Pew conducted surveys between July 5, 2022, and January 27 this year and also held focus groups and one-on-one interviews with over 100 Asian Americans to uncover what religion means to them.
  9. en.wikipedia.org

    Hinduism among Asian Americans is notable for its private worship practices. Nearly 79% of Asian American Hindus use an altar, shrine, or religious symbol for worship at home - the highest percentage among Asian American religious groups. At the same time, 31% of Hindus also report attending religious services at least monthly. [77]
  10. tif.ssrc.org

    Mar 22, 2023According to the latest findings, 34 percent are Christian (of which 10 percent are Catholic), 10 percent Hindu, 9 percent Buddhist, 8 percent Muslim, and 34 percent unaffiliated. Asian American religious experiences also differ along important lines of ethnicity, generation, and class, making it impossible to speak of any one thing called ...
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