Wonder if any of the so called journalists or pundits have actually researched the number of " Christian Fundamentalists " in the US.... Who exactly are these folks and how many of them are there....?? Not too many, as near as I can tell.
This link is MOST interesting....
adherents.com
The Catholic Church has BY FAR the largest percentage of members in the US...24.5% in 2001...
The following table combines self-identification statistics from the ARIS report (2001) with church attendance figures obtained from the Barna survey. The Barna survey was conducted from January 2000 through June 2001, and had a sample size of 6,038 adults. The survey asked people if they attended a church service, other than a special event such as a wedding or funeral, in the past 7 days. The proportion responding affirmatively can be thought of as the highly active segment of a particular denominational community.
ARIS: Total number of adults, U.S., 2001: 207,980,000
Denomination/
Denominational
Family # of Adults
self-identification
2001 % of U.S. pop.
self-identification
2001 % weekly
church attendance
this denom.
2001 % of U.S. pop.
in attendance
at this denom.
during a given week
Catholic 50,873,000 24.5% 48% 11.74%
Baptist 33,830,000 16.3% 50% 8.13%
Methodist 14,150,000 6.8% 49% 3.33%
Lutheran 9,580,000 4.6% 43% 1.98%
Pentecostal/Charismatic/Foursquare 4,407,000 2.1% 66% 1.40%
Presbyterian 5,596,000 2.7% 49% 1.32%
Mormon/
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2,697,000 1.3% 71% 0.92%
Non-denominational Christians 2,489,000 1.2% 61% 0.73%
Church of Christ 2,593,000 1.2% 58% 0.72%
Episcopal/Anglican 3,451,000 1.7% 30% 0.50%
Assemblies of God 1,106,000 0.5% 69% 0.37%
Congregational/
United Church of Christ 1,378,000 0.7% * 30% 0.20%
Seventh-Day Adventist 724,000 0.3% 47% 0.16% |
