{"id":14236,"date":"2015-05-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/05\/17\/us-becoming-less-christian-study-finds-unaffiliated-group-grows\/"},"modified":"2015-05-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T12:00:00","slug":"us-becoming-less-christian-study-finds-unaffiliated-group-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/05\/17\/us-becoming-less-christian-study-finds-unaffiliated-group-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Becoming Less Christian, Study Finds; Unaffiliated Group Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/u-s-becoming-less-christian-study-finds-unaffiliated-group-grows-n357561\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, May 14, 2015 (NBC News): The share of Americans who do not identify with a religion has grown dramatically and now surpasses every affiliation except evangelical Protestants, according to a survey released Tuesday. The Pew Research Center found that 22.8 percent of Americans were religiously unaffiliated last year &#8212; up from 16.1 percent in 2007. That group includes atheists, agnostics and those who chose &#8220;nothing in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In all, roughly seven in 10 Americans identified with some branch of Christianity, down from almost eight in 10 in 2007. The share of Americans who identify with a non-Christian faith grew to 5.9 percent, with pronounced growth among Muslims and Hindus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED STATES, May 14, 2015 (NBC News): The share of Americans who do not identify with a religion has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}