Church membership falls below the majority for the first time in almost a century - Entrepreneur Generations

The proportion of Americans who consider themselves members of a church, synagogue or mosque has dropped below 50 percent, according to a poll from Gallup released Monday. It is the first time that has happened since Gallup first asked the question in 1937, when church membership was 73%," Sarah Pulliam Bailey reports for The Washington Post. "In recent years, research data has shown a seismic shift in the U.S. population away from religious institutions and toward general disaffiliation, a trend that analysts say could have major implications for politics, business and how Americans group themselves. In 2020, 47%of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. The polling firm also found that the number of people who said religion was very important to them has fallen to 48%, a new low point in the polling since 2000."

Other findings from the poll and other research:

• Church membership is strongly correlated with age. 66% of people born before 1946 belong to a church, compared with 58% of Baby Boomers, 50% of Generation X and 36% of Millennials.
• Americans are more likely than people in other countries to say their religious faith has become stronger during the pandemic, according to the Pew Research Center.

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