Pew Analysis: The “Solidly Secular” Are Young, Rich, White, Educated, and Male: Religious Typology

[phands]

Interesting analysis, but I'm not sure we need "Religious Typology"....

Whenever we see a new survey involved religion, it’s always interesting and frustrating to see how groups are lumped together.
Christianity is so broad that it has to be broken down by denomination. Evangelicals are still so complex that they need further breakdown. For example, white evangelicals and black Protestants have very little political overlap.
The same thing applies to the “Nones” or the religiously “unaffiliated.” Atheists are usually lumped in together with agnostics and other people who just don’t belong to any organized religion. Since the majority of that group believes in some supernatural nonsense, we see strange survey results like how 25% of religiously unaffiliated Americans believe in astrology. While there isn’t always enough data to separate atheists out from everyone else, we’re put in an umbrella group that isn’t very helpful at all.
That’s why the Pew Research Center has just released a different kind of analysis. Instead of analyzing groups based on their religious affiliations, they created seven of their own categories — religious “typologies— and put people in them. It’s not about race. It’s about the beliefs people hold, how actively they believe them, and how that plays out.
So among the highly religious, we have “Sunday Stalwarts” who go to church every week and whose faith dominates their lives, “God-and-Country Believers” who represent the Religious Right types whose faith is really more defined by politics and conservative views, and “Diversely Devout” who are very religious or spiritual but aren’t necessarily tied to a particular church or pattern of worship.
Then you get to our end of the spectrum.
We’re split into two groups: The “Solidly Secular” who reject both religious beliefs and the supernatural, and the “Religion Resisters” who might believe in supernatural bullshit but think organized religion is a bad idea.

There's a lot more at the link..... http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...cular-are-young-rich-white-educated-and-male/

 

[Jobar]

That may be a better way of distinguishing between and among the belief status of adults, but it still seems somehow incomplete. Worth reading, though.

 

[repoman]

Is the current version of the church in general actually a force for anti-racism? Is it seen as just another source of "fuck whites" by some young white guys?