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Gallup recently updated its long-standing trend question asking Americans about their willingness to vote for presidential candidates from a variety of different backgrounds. While Americans overwhelmingly say they would vote for a black, woman, ...

Americans who frequently attend church services give either an explicitly religious rationale for their attendance or one that deals with a spiritual or inspirational dimension of churchgoing. The 40% to 45% of Americans who seldom or never ...

According to aggregated Gallup Poll data collected throughout 2002, only a small percentage of Americans say they have no religious preference. Even smaller percentages describe themselves as either "atheist" or "agnostic." Gallup researchers ...

Christian rock band Third Day entertained convention-goers at the Republican National Convention last week and likely helped boost the party’s youth appeal. Given that Christian entertainment has established a solid foothold in American youth ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule next month on the constitutionality of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in late March in the case that challenges the phrase’s inclusion, ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of allowing public schools to lead students in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, which contains the phrase, “one nation under God.” A look in Gallup’s online ...

The arrival of Christmas and the beginning of a new year provide an opportunity to review a year's worth of data on Americans and their religion. Of interest at this time of year is the fact that more than 8 in 10 Americans are Christian while ...

Public opinion polling has long shown the United States to be a very religious country. Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say religion is “very important” in their own lives, and another 26% say it is fairly important. But religious commitment and ...

The phenomenal success of the Mel Gibson movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” has focused attention once again on the power of religion in the daily lives of Americans today. An analysis of Gallup Poll data asking Americans about their religious ...