The quote in the paragraph linking this page is from:
Greeley, A. 1997, “Pie in the Sky While You’re Alive:
Life After Death and Supply Side Religion.” Paper delivered
to the American Sociological Association annual meeting,
Toronto, September, p.2.
The following stats are a very small sampling from an
excellent book worth purchasing:
“How We Believe. The Search for God in an Age of Science” by
Michael Shermer ISBN 0-7167-3561-X
W. H. Freeman and Company.
A Gallup poll of American adults (differs from other western countries):
Belief in God 96%
Belief in Heaven 90%
Belief in Miracles 79%
Belief in Hell 73%
Belief in Angels 72%
Belief the devil is real 65%
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American Church membership:
1776 — 17%
~1850 — 34%
1999 — over 60%
etc. etc. etc.
Naturalism and Religious Experience 