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It is written: U.S. women more religious than men

By Ed Stoddard
February 27, 2009

It is written: U.S. women are more religious than men.

This is according to a newly released bit of number crunching from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which bases the numbers on its massive U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. Most of the research was conducted in 2007 and the survey remains a treasure trove of facts and figures on religious life in America.

You can see the new analysis here. Among other things it finds that U.S. women trump men on being affilated to a specific faith (86 percent to 79 percent), on daily prayer (66 to 49 percent), and attending a worship service weekly (44 percent to 34 percent).

Would anyone care to comment on why they think there is a gender imbalance in U.S. religious beliefs and practices?

(Photo: an attendee prays during the inauguration ceremony of U.S. President Barack Obama. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, Jan 20, 2009, USA)

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