{"id":198640,"date":"2025-02-26T06:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=198640"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:49:24","slug":"spiritual-and-religious-self-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/02\/26\/spiritual-and-religious-self-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"14. Spiritual and religious self-descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Americans are more likely to say they are spiritual than to say they are religious. Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they are either very spiritual or somewhat spiritual, while 58% say they are very or somewhat religious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Combining these measures, upward of half of U.S. adults (53%) say they are both spiritual and religious, while 21% say they are spiritual but not religious. Just 5% say they are religious but not spiritual, and 21% say they are neither spiritual nor religious.[62. numoffset=”62″ Pew Research Center has asked about spirituality among Americans in various ways. Most recently, in a 2023 survey<\/a>, we asked U.S. adults, \u201cDo you think of yourself as spiritual? (Yes\/No)\u201d and \u201cDo you think of yourself as religious? (Yes\/No)\u201d along with questions asking, \u201cHow important is spirituality in your life?\u201d and \u201cHow important is religion in your life?\u201d We divided respondents into four categories based on their responses to both sets of questions, classifying them as spiritual if they said either that they think of themselves as spiritual OR that spirituality is very important in their lives. Likewise, we classified them as religious if they said either that they think of themselves as religious OR that religion is very important in their lives. Broadly speaking, the 2023 survey found a similar pattern<\/a> of responses to what the Religious Landscape Study (RLS) shows. The largest group in the 2023 survey consisted of Americans who said they were both<\/em> spiritual and religious (48%), while 22% said they were spiritual but not religious, 10% said they were religious but not spiritual, and 21% said they were neither spiritual nor religious.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jump to details on how Americans answer questions in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) about:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n