America’s youngest adults attend religious services at far higher rates than those of people just a few years older, an unexpected survey finding that challenges assumptions about younger generations abandoning organized religion.
A Pew Research Center study released on Oct. 28 found that 41 percent of adults ages 18 to 22 attend services at least monthly, compared with 27 percent of those ages 23 to 26. The younger group’s rate is about 152 percent of the older group’s rate, a 14-percentage-point difference.
“These numbers were just as striking to us,” Pew senior researcher Chip Rotolo said in an interview with The Epoch Times.
“It is striking in light of some of our former surveys to see that today’s youngest adults, ages 18 to 22, are attending at levels as high as any age group, even those in their mid to late 70s,” he said….