117届美国国会的宗教信仰组成报告（英文）

FOR RELEASE JAN. 4, 2021 BY Aleksandra Sandstrom FOR MEDIA OR OTHER INQUIRIES: Aleksandra Sandstrom, Senior Copy Editor Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, Senior Researcher Anna Schiller, Senior Communications Manager Kelsey Beveridge, Communications Associate 202.419.4372 www.pewresearch.org RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center, Jan. 4, 2021, “Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 117th Congress” 1 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take policy positions. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. It studies U.S. politics and policy; journalism and media; internet, science and technology; religion and public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and U.S. social and demographic trends. All of the Center’s reports are available at www.pewresearch.org. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. © Pew Research Center 2021 2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org How we did this Every two years, Pew Research Center publishes a report on the religious affiliation of members of the incoming Congress. This report is the seventh in the series, which started with the 111th Congress that began in 2009. Data on members of Congress comes from CQ Roll Call, which surveys members about their demographic characteristics, including religious affiliation. Pew Research Center researchers then code the data so that Congress can be compared with U.S. adults overall. For example, members of Congress who tell CQ Roll Call they are “Southern Baptists” are coded as “Baptists” – a broader category (including Southern Baptists as well as other Baptists) used for analysis of the general public. Data in this report covers members of Congress sworn in on Jan. 3, 2021. One contested election, in New York’s 22nd District, was uncalled by the start of the new Congress. Congressman-elect Luke J. Letlow of Louisiana’s 5th District died before the swearing-in; his seat will go unfilled until a March special election. One representative, Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, was sworn in provisionally on Jan. 3; she is included in this analysis. In addition, both of Georgia’s Senate seats were subject to runoff elections set to take place Jan. 5, 2021. Therefore, this analysis includes 531 members of Congress, rather than 535. Data for all U.S. adults comes from aggregated Pew Research Center political surveys conducted on the telephone from January 2018 through July 2019 and summarized in the report “In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.” Figures for Protestant subgroups and Unitarians come from the Center’s 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4 to Sept. 30, 2014, among more than 35,000 Americans. F