USA: Who Are Most-Diverse And Least-Diverse Religious Groups In The U.S.

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According to a January survey by Christian research group LifeWay, 67 percent of American churchgoers believe their church has done enough to promote racial diversity. (HF)

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By Antonia Blumberg | July 28, 2015

African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans were more likely than white congregants to say their church needs to be more diverse.

The five most racially diverse U.S. religious groups are a diverse group themselves. Seventh-day Adventists, a Protestant denomination, tops the list, followed by Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Buddhists and the religiously unaffiliated.

Pew Research analyzed its 2014 Religious Landscape Data to see which of 29 religious groups boasted the highest racial and ethnic diversity. The analysis included five racial categories,according to Pew's website: Hispanics, non-Hispanic whites, blacks, Asians and an umbrella category of other races and mixed-race Americans.



A score of 10 on the index means a religious group has exactly equal shares of each of the five racial and ethnic categories. A religious group made up of just one racial group would get a score of 0.

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