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