The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Lilly Endowment Inc., Templeton Religion Trust, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder.
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/religion.
Research team
Gregory A. Smith, Senior Associate Director, Religion Research
Alan Cooperman, Director, Religion Research
Becka A. Alper, Senior Researcher
Besheer Mohamed, Senior Researcher
Michael Rotolo, Research Associate
Patricia Tevington, Research Associate
Justin Nortey, Research Analyst
Asta Kallo, Research Assistant
Methods team
Ashley Amaya, Associate Director, Survey Methods
Andrew Mercer, Senior Research Methodologist
Courtney Kennedy, Vice President, Methods and Innovation
Dorene Asare-Marfo, Senior Panel Manager
Dana Popky, Associate Panel Manager
Anna Brown, Research Methodologist
Arnold Lau, Research Methodologist
Editorial and graphic design
Jeff Diamant, Senior Writer/Editor
Dalia Fahmy, Senior Writer/Editor
Rebecca Leppert, Copy Editor
Bill Webster, Senior Information Graphics Designer
Communications and web publishing
Kim Arias, Video Lead
Chris Baronavski, Lead Engineer, Editorial Content
Peter Bell, Associate Director, Design and Production
Kelly Browning, User Experience Manager
Andrea Caumont, Associate Director, Digital Outreach
Justine Coleman, Associate Digital Producer
Shannon Greenwood, Digital Production Manager
Stacy Rosenberg, Director, Digital Strategy
Seth Rubenstein, Platform Lead, Engineering Team
Anna Schiller, Associate Director, Strategic Communications
Kyhry Taylor, Temporary User Experience Specialist
Blythe Thomas, Director, Strategic Communications
Ben Wormald, Senior Engineer
Nick Zanetti, Associate Engineer
Many individuals contributed to this survey’s data collection and methodology. In particular, Pew Research Center is grateful to Emily Alvarez, Leah Christian, David Dutwin, Ned English and Martha McRoy from NORC at the University of Chicago for their many contributions to this project.
Others at Pew Research Center who contributed to this report include Claudia Deane, executive vice president; Neha Sahgal, vice president of research; Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research; Kim Parker, director of social trends research; Conrad Hackett, associate director of religion research and senior demographer; Juliana Menasce Horowitz, senior associate director of social trends research; Jocelyn Kiley, senior associate director of political research; Sahana Mukherjee, associate director of race and ethnicity research; Alec Tyson, associate director of science and society research; Rick Fry, senior researcher; Scott Keeter, senior survey advisor; Jens Manuel Krogstad, senior writer/editor; Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer; Luis Noe-Bustamante, research associate; and Achsah Callahan, former communications manager.
In addition, the Center is grateful to expert advisers who provided valuable advice on this project: R. Khari Brown, professor of sociology at Wayne State University; Mark Chaves, Anne Firor Scott distinguished professor of sociology and professor of religious studies and divinity at Duke University; Penny Edgell, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota; John C. Green, director emeritus of The Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and distinguished professor emeritus of political science at The University of Akron; Corwin E. Smidt, professor emeritus of political science at Calvin University; and David Voas, emeritus professor of social science at University College London.
