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African-Americans and Religion

Jan. 30, 2009

A new analysis by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. population as a whole.

Source: Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007, released in 2008
Data tables available in the full report.

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