Americans Change Faiths at Rising Rate, Pew Report Finds
February 25, 2008 12:43 pm Culture Wars, Holy Wars: The Clash within CivilizationsAmericans Change Faiths at Rising Rate, Report Finds - New York Times, Feb. 25, 2008
WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or no religion, according to a new survey of religious affiliation by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The report, titled “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey,” depicts a highly fluid and diverse national religious life. If shifts among Protestant denominations are included, then it appears that 44 percent of Americans have switched religious affiliations.