Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Tom Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: PCUSA report on human sexuality Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 04:09:11 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: SUNY Binghamton Lines: 47 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , chappell@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Glenn Chappell) writes: |>I believe that no appreciable difference has been found between the divorce |>rate for Christians and that for non-Christians. Of course, the people who |>gathered this information may very well have been using a rather loose |>definition of "Christian". It is interesting to note, however, that divorce |>is apparently nearly unknown among Christians who read the Bible daily. An article appeared recently in _The United Methodist Review_ on a survey of 113,000 adults performed by sociologists at CUNY. People were simply asked "What is you religion?", their answer to this question was then compared with their answers to a number of other questions. (The researchers were interested in how the participants perceived their religious identity.) While I don't see any specific results dealing with comparitive divorce rates of Christians and Non-Christians, there is some similar data. "Greater percentages of people with no religion stay single. Greek Orthodox have the lowest rate of divorce, Unitarians the highest. Roman Catholics run about even with mainstream Protestants." Some other interesting findings: "Hindus and Jews, in that order, have the highest percentage of college graduates. Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists and Pentecostals have the lowest." "Jews and Baptists are the most likely to be Democrats. Jews are the most urban-based group, while Baptists are more rural than any other religious group." "Half of the 1.5 million Arab-Americans are Christian, including most of those of Lebanese and Iraqi descent. Most Asian-Americans are not Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim - They're Christian, especially Catholic and Baptist." "The average age of a Presbyterian is 48.2 years, followed by Methodists at 48. Of the major denominational families, Pentecostals are the youngest, just under 40." "Presbyterians (2.6), Methodists and Jews (2.7) have the lowest average size households." Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton