How much do you know about religion... and specifically religions around the world? The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released their U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, a nationwide poll conducted from May 19 through June 6, 2010, among 3,412 Americans age 18 and older, on landlines and cell phones, in English and Spanish. One of the interesting overall data points:
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
It makes for fascinating reading if you are interested in topics relating to religion.
BEFORE YOU READ THE SURVEY, though, take the Pew Forum's quiz at:
http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/
It's a short 15-question quiz.
THEN you can go on to read the full survey results (since they give away some of the answers to the quiz). As I said, I found it a fascinating view into the knowledge level of U.S. citizens.
I also found the quiz quite interesting... how did you do on it? (I did quite well, but I'll wait to post my actual score for a bit...)
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