Interfaith America: Demographic Patterns and Trends A presentation to the Interfaith Opportunity Summit, October 26, 2016 Alan Cooperman Director of Religion Research www.pewresearch.org/religion

U.S. Adult Jewish Population, 2013 Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Partly Jewish by religion Jewish not by religion or mix Jewish Child Rearing Among those who are parents/guardians of minor children in their household, % raising their children …   Jewish by religion Partly Jewish by religion Jewish not by religion or mix NOT Jewish % NET Jewish 59 14 8 18 Jews by religion 71 15 7 Jews of no religion 11 67 Among Jews married to … Jewish spouse 96 2 1 Non-Jewish spouse 20 25 16 37 Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. “Other” responses not shown. “Jews not by religion or mix,” includes those who are raising their children Jewish but not by religion along with those who have multiple children, some of whom are being raised Jewish by religion, others partly Jewish by religion, and others Jewish but not by religion. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Intermarriage, by Year of Marriage % of Jewish respondents with a non-Jewish spouse … Overall Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. Note: This table is based on the current religion of the spouse in intact marriages. It does not take account of divorces or remarriages. If intermarriages break up at higher rates than in-marriages – as some research suggests – these figures may underrepresent the share of intermarriages, particularly in decades past. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Intermarriage, by Denomination Among married Jews, % whose spouse is… Source: Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Rising Share of Jews are Offspring of Intermarriage Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. Note: Based on net Jews – current Jewish adults. Raised Jewish without a Jewish parent not shown. QH16, AGE. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Rising Share of Offspring of Intermarriages Are Jewish in Adulthood Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. Note: Based on all adults who have one Jewish parent and one non-Jewish parent. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Jewish identity by parent religion Among all U.S. adults today who have… Currently identify as… A Jewish mother and a Jewish father A Jewish mother, NOT a Jewish father A Jewish father, NOT a Jewish mother Jews by religion 88% Jews of no religion 47% 40% Note: Based on all U.S. adults who have at least one Jewish parent. Source: Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews, Feb. 20-June 13, 2013. www.pewresearch.org/religion

New pew research center study: religious mixing in american families October 26, 2016 www.pewresearch.org/religion

One-in-five U.S. adults were raised in interfaith homes Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Millennials more likely to have been raised in households with mixed religious identities Born before 1946 b. 1946-1964 b. 1965-1980 b. 1981-1996 Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Americans raised with a SINGLE religious background Either by a single parent who was ___ or by two parents who were both___ Raised… Current religious identity Protestant Catholic Unaffiliated Other Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Americans raised with MIXED religious backgrounds By two parents who did NOT have the same religions, one of whom was ___ and the other ___ Raised… Current religious identity Protestant, Catholic Protestant Catholic Unaffiliated Other Net affiliated, 62% Religiously affiliated, religiously unaffiliated Protestant Unaffiliated Catholic Other Protestant, unaffiliated Protestant Unaffiliated Catholic Other Catholic, unaffiliated Catholic Unaffiliated Protestant Other Note: Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Who was more responsible for your religious upbringing? Most say their parents shared equally in their religious upbringing, but if one was more responsible, it was usually mom Who was more responsible for your religious upbringing? Note: Based on those raised by biological or adoptive mother and father. Don’t know/refused responses not shown. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

Those from mixed religious backgrounds more likely to adopt mother’s religion as their own Based on those from religiously mixed backgrounds raised by two biological or adoptive parents Note: Religiously mixed backgrounds includes being raised by two parents (biological or adoptive) who belonged to different religions or one parent who was religiously affiliated and one parent who was unaffiliated. Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

One-quarter of married adults are in religiously mixed marriages Note: Based on those who are currently married. Results repercentaged to exclude nonresponse. Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014. www.pewresearch.org/religion

% who say each is “very important” for a successful marriage For a successful marriage, religion more important than politics, less important than sex or shared interests % who say each is “very important” for a successful marriage Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study recontact survey conducted March 17-May 6, 2015. www.pewresearch.org/religion

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