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Oct 14, 2014 · Beliefs. The simple reason why people really change churches, switch faiths, or leave religion altogether. A person's faith will remain at rest unless acted upon by outside forces. October 14,...
- Tobin Grant
Shutterstock.com. Of the five major world religions, three actively work to gain converts. Islam, Buddhism and Christianity all place a great deal of emphasis on spreading their faith and...
- Stephanie Hertzenberg
Apr 27, 2009 · The reasons people give for changing their religion – or leaving religion altogether – differ widely depending on the origin and destination of the convert. The group that has grown the most in recent years due to religious change is the unaffiliated population.
- Generational ‘Snowball’
- Disaffiliation Among Older Adults
- Education, Politics and Geography Tied to Differences in Religious Switching
- Other Drivers of Change
Whatever the deeper causes, religious disaffiliation in the U.S. is being fueled by switching patterns that started “snowballing” from generation to generation in the 1990s. The core population of “nones” has an increasingly “sticky” identity as it rolls forward, and it is gaining a lot more people than it is shedding, in a dynamic that has a kind ...
The “snowballing” dynamic is being driven by an acceleration in switching among young Christians – those ages 15 to 29. People under 30 tend to grapple with identities of all kinds, and young adulthood is often a time of major change, when many people leave their parents’ household, start careers and form lasting romantic partnerships. But there is...
A closer look at the characteristics of adults who have left Christianity and are now religiously unaffiliated indicates that other traits – such as age, gender, education, political identity and region of residence – also are tied to disaffiliation. U.S. adults who have moved away from Christianity are younger, on average, than those who have rema...
Switching is the primary, but by no means the only, process causing religious change in the U.S. Populations can grow or shrink through a few other mechanisms. Patterns of religious transmission, migration and fertility explain some of the shift in the religious landscape in recent decades.
- Reem Nadeem
Aug 2, 2019 · But if history is any guide, no matter how deeply held our beliefs may be today, they are likely in time to be transformed or transferred as they pass to our descendants – or simply to fade away....
May 12, 2015 · May 12, 2015. America’s Changing Religious Landscape. Chapter 2: Religious Switching and Intermarriage. Like the 2007 Religious Landscape Study, the new survey shows a remarkable degree of churn in the U.S. religious landscape.
People convert to a different religion for various reasons, including active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs, secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience, marital conversion, and forced conversion.
