{"id":282650,"date":"2025-12-15T13:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=282650"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:50:37","slug":"acknowledgments-us-religious-switching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/acknowledgments-us-religious-switching\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledgments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report includes new analysis of data from the 2023-24 U.S. Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS). The 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primary researcher<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Becka A. Alper, Senior Researcher<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research team<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Alan Cooperman, Director, Religion Research<\/em>
Gregory A. Smith, Senior Associate Director, Research<\/em>
Besheer Mohamed, Principal Researcher<\/em>
Chip Rotolo, Research Associate<\/em>
Patricia Tevington, Research Associate<\/em>
Asta Kallo, Research Assistant<\/em>
Meghan Rustemeyer, Research Assistant<\/em>
Justin Nortey, Former Research Analyst<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Methods team<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Courtney Kennedy, Vice President, Methods and Innovation<\/em>
Ashley Amaya, Associate Director, Survey Methods<\/em>
Andrew Mercer, Principal Methodologist<\/em>
Dorene Asare-Marfo, Senior Panel Manager<\/em>
Dana Popky, Associate Panel Manager<\/em>
Anna Brown, Research Methodologist<\/em>
Arnold Lau, Research Methodologist<\/em>
Thomas May, Former Intern<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial and graphic design<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Diamant, Senior Writer\/Editor<\/em>
Rebecca Leppert, Editorial Specialist<\/em>
Bill Webster, Senior Information Graphics Designer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communications and web publishing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Taber, Communications Manager<\/em>
Justine Coleman, Associate Digital Producer<\/em>
Talia Price, Communications Associate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. This report includes new analysis of data from the 2023-24 U.S. Religious Landscape Study (RLS). The RLS was made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"relatedPosts":[],"reportMaterials":[],"multiSectionReport":[],"package_parts__enabled":false,"package_parts":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0,"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[180,179,169,228,182,435,160],"tags":[],"bylines":[571,975,917,622],"collection":[2625],"datasets":[2610],"level_of_effort":[],"primary_audience":[],"information_type":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[458],"_fund_pool":[2388],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[515],"research-teams":[517],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-282650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-non-religion-secularism","category-parenthood","category-protestantism","category-religious-commitment","category-religious-identity-affiliation","bylines-asta-kallo","bylines-becka-alper","bylines-jeff-diamant","bylines-patricia-tevington","collection-religious-landscape-study","datasets-2023-24-religious-landscape-study-rls-dataset","formats-report","regions-countries-united-states","research-teams-religion"],"label":false,"post_parent":282641,"word_count":192,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/acknowledgments-us-religious-switching\/","art_direction":{"A2":{"id":282742,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"caption":"(Getty Images)","chartArt":false},"XL":{"id":282742,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg?w=720&h=405&crop=1","width":720,"height":405,"caption":"(Getty Images)","chartArt":false},"A3":{"id":282742,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg?w=194&h=110&crop=1","width":194,"height":110,"caption":"(Getty Images)","chartArt":false},"A4":{"id":282742,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg?w=268&h=151&crop=1","width":268,"height":151,"caption":"(Getty Images)","chartArt":false},"A1":{"id":282742,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg?w=564&h=317&crop=1","width":564,"height":317,"caption":"(Getty Images)","chartArt":false},"social":{"id":282742,"rawUrl":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_featured.jpg?w=1200&h=628&crop=1","width":1200,"height":628,"caption":"(Getty Images)","chartArt":false}},"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[{"id":282641,"title":"Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?","slug":"why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay\/","is_active":false},{"id":282646,"title":"Why some Americans have left Protestantism, while others stay or join","slug":"why-some-americans-have-left-protestantism-while-others-stay-or-join","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-some-americans-have-left-protestantism-while-others-stay-or-join\/","is_active":false},{"id":282647,"title":"Why some Americans have left Catholicism, while others stay","slug":"why-some-americans-have-left-catholicism-while-others-stay","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-some-americans-have-left-catholicism-while-others-stay\/","is_active":false},{"id":282648,"title":"Why many U.S. adults are \u2018nones,\u2019 and why some former \u2018nones\u2019 have joined a religion","slug":"why-many-us-adults-are-nones-and-why-some-former-nones-have-joined-a-religion","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-many-us-adults-are-nones-and-why-some-former-nones-have-joined-a-religion\/","is_active":false},{"id":282649,"title":"How parents are raising their children, religiously","slug":"how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously\/","is_active":false},{"id":282650,"title":"Acknowledgments","slug":"acknowledgments-us-religious-switching","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/acknowledgments-us-religious-switching\/","is_active":true},{"id":282651,"title":"Methodology","slug":"methodology-us-religious-switching","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/methodology-us-religious-switching\/","is_active":false}],"report_materials":[{"key":"_dgjyrhpd9","type":"report","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_report.pdf","label":"Report PDF","icon":"","attachmentId":282902},{"key":"_syt6suunm","type":"topline","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_topline.pdf","label":"Topline","attachmentId":282635},{"key":"_r1xvfseyc","type":"questionnaire","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/12\/PR_2025.12.15_us-religious-switching_questionnaire.pdf","label":"Questionnaire","attachmentId":282636},{"type":"dataset","id":2610,"label":"2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Dataset","url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/dataset\/2023-24-religious-landscape-study-rls-dataset\/"}],"report_pagination":{"current_post":{"id":282650,"title":"Acknowledgments","slug":"acknowledgments-us-religious-switching","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/acknowledgments-us-religious-switching\/","is_active":true,"page_num":6},"next_post":{"id":282651,"title":"Methodology","slug":"methodology-us-religious-switching","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/methodology-us-religious-switching\/","is_active":false,"page_num":7},"previous_post":{"id":282649,"title":"How parents are raising their children, religiously","slug":"how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously\/","is_active":false,"page_num":5},"pagination_items":[{"id":282641,"title":"Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?","slug":"why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay\/","is_active":false,"page_num":1},{"id":282646,"title":"Why some Americans have left Protestantism, while others stay or join","slug":"why-some-americans-have-left-protestantism-while-others-stay-or-join","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-some-americans-have-left-protestantism-while-others-stay-or-join\/","is_active":false,"page_num":2},{"id":282647,"title":"Why some Americans have left Catholicism, while others stay","slug":"why-some-americans-have-left-catholicism-while-others-stay","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-some-americans-have-left-catholicism-while-others-stay\/","is_active":false,"page_num":3},{"id":282648,"title":"Why many U.S. adults are \u2018nones,\u2019 and why some former \u2018nones\u2019 have joined a religion","slug":"why-many-us-adults-are-nones-and-why-some-former-nones-have-joined-a-religion","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/why-many-us-adults-are-nones-and-why-some-former-nones-have-joined-a-religion\/","is_active":false,"page_num":4},{"id":282649,"title":"How parents are raising their children, religiously","slug":"how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/how-parents-are-raising-their-children-religiously\/","is_active":false,"page_num":5},{"id":282650,"title":"Acknowledgments","slug":"acknowledgments-us-religious-switching","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/acknowledgments-us-religious-switching\/","is_active":true,"page_num":6},{"id":282651,"title":"Methodology","slug":"methodology-us-religious-switching","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2025\/12\/15\/methodology-us-religious-switching\/","is_active":false,"page_num":7}]},"parent_info":{"parent_title":"Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?","parent_id":282641},"materialsOrdered":[],"chaptersOrdered":[],"partsOrdered":[],"partsEnabled":false,"datacite_doi":"Alper, Becka A., Patricia Tevington, Asta Kallo and Jeff Diamant. 2025. \"Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?\" Pew Research Center. doi: 10.58094\/52kn-8828.","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Acknowledgments","description":"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.…","og_title":"Acknowledgments","og_description":"","schema_type":"Article","noindex":false,"canonical_url":"","primary_terms":{"category":160,"formats":458,"regions-countries":515,"research-teams":517,"collection":2625},"custom_schema":[],"og_image":282742,"indexnow_submitted_at":null,"gsc_index_status":null},"prepublish_checks":{"prc-image-alt-text":{"status":"complete","message":"No image blocks in content.","data":null},"prc-about-this-research":{"status":"incomplete","message":"Add an \"About this research\" details block.","data":null},"prc-paragraph-count":{"status":"complete","message":"Found 7 paragraphs.","data":{"count":7}},"prc-internal-link":{"status":"complete","message":"Found 2 internal links.","data":{"count":2}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"relatedPostsOrdered":[],"bylinesOrdered":[],"acknowledgementsOrdered":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282980,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282650\/revisions\/282980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"bylines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bylines?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"datasets","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datasets?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"level_of_effort","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level_of_effort?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"primary_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_audience?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"information_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/information_type?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"_post_visibility","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_post_visibility?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"formats","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/formats?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"_fund_pool","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_fund_pool?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/languages?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"regions-countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions-countries?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"research-teams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-teams?post=282650"},{"taxonomy":"workflow-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/workflow-status?post=282650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}