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God’s Country?
In his recent article in Foreign Affairs, Walter Russell Mead argues that as U.S. evangelicals exert increasing political influence, they are becoming a powerful force in foreign affairs. In recent...
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Evangelicals and the GOP: An Update
by Scott Keeter White evangelical Protestants have become one of the most important parts of the Republican Party’s electoral base, making up over one-third of those who identify with the GOP and vote...
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Rev. Falwell’s Moral Majority: Mission Accomplished?
by Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President, Pew Research Center When the late Rev. Jerry Falwell disbanded the Moral Majority in 1989, a decade after he had founded the grass-roots evangelical Christian...
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¡Here Come ‘Los Evangélicos’!
by Luis Lugo, Director, and Allison Pond, Research Assistant Next week hundreds of evangelical Latino pastors and church leaders will descend on Washington, D.C. for the annual National Hispanic Prayer...
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Young White Evangelicals: Less Republican, Still Conservative
by Dan Cox, Research Associate White evangelical Protestants have been one of the most faithful Republican constituencies in presidential elections in recent years, voting overwhelmingly for GOP...
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Does McCain Need Evangelical Voters?
John McCain gives the 2006 commencement address at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian school founded by the Rev.Jerry Falwell. John McCain has been subject to criticism from evangelical...
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American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues
A new generation of evangelical leaders includes best-selling author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren. Leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith...
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Most Mainline Protestants Say Society Should Accept Homosexuality
Members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, two mainline Protestant denominations, are considering whether to allow the ordination of non-celibate gays...
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Most Latino Evangelicals Pray Every Day
On June 17-19, hundreds of Hispanic evangelical church leaders will participate in the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew...
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Global Survey of Evangelical Protestant Leaders
Preface Although its historical roots are mostly in Northern Europe and North America, evangelical Protestantism is a global phenomenon today. In 1910, by one estimate, there were about 80 million...
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Will Evangelical Voters Rally Around a Single Candidate in 2008?
With several primary contests completed and Super Tuesday fast approaching, Forum Associate Director Mark O’Keefe interviewed Senior Research Fellow John Green about the vote of evangelical Christians...
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Faith in Flux
Note: Revised February 2011* Americans change religious affiliation early and often. In total, about half of American adults have changed religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Most...
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A Conversation with Pastor Rick Warren
The evangelical Christian movement historically has been defined by its members’ distinctive doctrinal standards and practices. Yet in recent years many Americans have come to understand evangelicals...
View ArticleStrong support for Israel in U.S. cuts across religious lines
The American Israel Public Affairs Council meets in Washington starting Sunday to lobby on issues affecting that country, and it can look to American Christians as a source of support for Israel.
View ArticleSouthern Baptists confront a ‘third way’ on homosexuality and sin
Southern Baptists are trying to navigate the rapidly shifting landscape of same-sex marriage and homosexuality.
View Article‘March for Marriage’ rally reflects steadfast opposition to gay marriage...
Opposition to same-sex marriage is now more concentrated among a few religious groups – particularly white evangelical Protestants.
View ArticleU.S. evangelical Christians are chilly toward atheists – and the feeling is...
U.S. Christians, as a whole, express negative feelings toward atheists, and the chilliness is reciprocated, according to a Pew Research survey on how Americans rate eight religious groups.
View ArticleHow Religious Groups View One Another
When asked to rate religious groups on a “feeling thermometer” ranging from 0 to 100, Americans rate Jews, Catholics and evangelical Christians warmly and atheists and Muslims more coldly.
View ArticleReligion in Latin America
Nearly 40% of the world's Catholics live in Latin America, but many people in the region have converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, while some have left organized religion altogether.
View ArticleReligion and Morality in Latin America
Even though Catholic Church teaching forbids behaviors like suicide and homosexuality, Protestants across Latin America are more likely than Catholics to see many issues as morally unacceptable.
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