Pew Research Center religious typology

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Pew Research Center’s religious typology is a research framework that categorizes Americans into distinct religious and belief-based groups to better understand patterns in faith, practice, and attitudes across the population.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf religious typology framework
social science research tool
survey-based classification system
accessibleAt Pew Research Center website
appliesTo U.S. adults
basedOn nationally representative surveys
public opinion polling data
comparedWith traditional religious affiliation categories
dataType quantitative survey data
developedBy Pew Research Center
dimension attitudes toward religion in public life
political attitudes
religious affiliation
religious belief
religious commitment
religious practice
views on social issues
emphasizes behavioral measures of religiosity
belief-based measures of religiosity
nonreligious and secular orientations
field American religious demography
public opinion research
sociology of religion
focusesOn religion in the United States
religious attitudes of Americans
religious beliefs of Americans
religious practices of Americans
geographicScope United States
organizesInto distinct religious typology groups
output group-level profiles of political and social views
group-level profiles of religious engagement
publicationFormat interactive web features
research reports
purpose to analyze patterns in faith and practice across the U.S. population
to categorize Americans into distinct religious and belief-based groups
to examine how religion relates to social and political attitudes
relatedTo Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study
Pew Research Center political typology
updated periodically with new survey waves
usedBy journalists
policy analysts
religious leaders
social scientists
usedIn Pew Research Center reports on religion in America
usesMethod cluster analysis
multivariate statistical analysis

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Black Protestant churches
recognizedBy
Pew Research Center religious typology ("Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study")
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