Can you name the Largest Religions of America? by ah_lawyer

Can you name the Largest Religions of America?

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Source: 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew
The quiz only includes groups .4% of the population or larger. Also, the Pew survey breaks Protestant Christianity (53.1%) into denominations and in some cases theological movements like "Holiness."
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Percent Population	Religion
23.9
17.1
12.1
6.1
5.0
4.6
4.4
4.3
2.7
2.4
2.1
1.7
1.7

Percent Population	Religion
1.6
1.5
1.1
0.8
0.7
0.7
0.7
0.6
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.4
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Largest Religions of America Quiz

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Created Jun 14, 2010 in Religion
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	thefeintinggoat:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 15:24 GMT		2 points
	If you accept Islam for Muslim, accept Judaism for Jewish.

	midwesterndiva:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 15:39 GMT		1 point
	Atheist is the same thing as "no religion." Accept "independent" for nondenominational. Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, etc. are denominations, not separate religions from Christianity.

	alleyt1989:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 15:45 GMT		1 point
	atheist is spelt wrong

	ah_lawyer:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 15:47 GMT		1 point
	thanks for the comments. feintinggoat - i fixed the oversight for missing the "ism" form on that and a couple others - my apologies! midwesterndiva - i added "independent" to the nondenominational issue. the Pew Survey actually differentiates between "no religion" and atheist, and more than half the respondents who identified as having no religion nonetheless identified themselves as religious. i broke protestantism into denominations/movements, as noted in the comment, because the quiz would much be less challenging otherwise. thanks for the comments!

	JRL:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 16:09 GMT		2 points
	You need to allow better shortcuts. For example, Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ for Restorationist. Church of God and Nazarene for Holiness. Orthodox for Orthodox Christian. Also, regardless of the way that Pew chose to separate categories, this quiz is still titled largest religions. You should combine atheist, no religion, and maybe even agnostic into the same category.

	ah_lawyer:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 16:26 GMT		2 points
	Thanks for the shortcut suggestions, JRL. I've incorporated them. I responded to the atheist/agnostic/none comment by making Pew's key term for "none" the display term -- it's "nothing in particular," and I think it's a little more descriptive. I'm open to being convinced on this, but at this point I'm not combining the three options for two reasons. First is fidelity to the source material. Second, I understand atheist/agnostic as affirmative statements about one's religion, where "nothing in particular" is a more passive statement, and therefore qualitatively different. As I said, I'm open to being convinced on this point.

	waterjoe:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 21:40 GMT		0 points
	According to the source, the total percentage of Christians is 78.4, not 53.1.

	ah_lawyer:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 22:12 GMT		1 point
	Good call - I meant Protestant Christians, since Catholics (23.9%) and a few small groups are pulled out. I've revised the header info.

	Bulletchewer6:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 16:11 GMT		2 points
	Atheism is not a religion. Agnosticism is not a religion. "Nothing in particular" is not a religion. All three equate to the absence of religion, or mere rationality.

	henster:	Jun 15th, 2010 at 17:22 GMT		2 points
	what the hell? hardly any of these are religions; most are christian denominations and some of them like agnosticism and atheism arent religions either! the whole point of atheism is that its against religion?

	newenglander:	Jun 17th, 2010 at 18:28 GMT		1 point
	nothing in particular? thats either agnostic or atheist

	BlueOrb:	Jun 22nd, 2010 at 03:45 GMT		2 points
	Nothing in particular does not necessarily equate to agnostic or atheist. You can believe that there is a higher power yet not follow any religion. In the same vein, you can be an atheist and still be religious. I think there are some sects of Buddhism that do not believe in a God, and humanism is considered a religion by some people. That said, none of them aren't religions, so they shouldn't be on this quiz, but to say that they are the same is incorrect.

	chriskotx:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 02:04 GMT		1 point
	I would think that with all the mega-churches popping up in every city that Evangelical would be very high up on the list - although there is no formal organization of them.