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Article: Religion News in Brief
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2009
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More American Jews say they're secular
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The number of American Jews who consider
themselves religiously observant has dropped by more than 20 percent
over the past two decades, as the share of Jews who consider
themselves secular has risen, according to a survey.
The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey found that
around 3.4 million American Jews call themselves religious -- out of
a general Jewish population of about 5.4 million.
The number of Jews who identify themselves as only culturally
Jewish has risen from 20 percent in 1990 to 37 percent last year,
according to the study. In the same period, the number of all U.S.
adults who said they had no religion ...