{"id":401184,"date":"2026-09-22T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=401184"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:23:51","slug":"lifelong-latter-day-saints-are-more-religious-than-both-former-members-and-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2026\/09\/22\/lifelong-latter-day-saints-are-more-religious-than-both-former-members-and-converts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong Latter-day Saints are more religious than both former members and converts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This project looks at the religious beliefs and practices, as well as the social and political views, of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons) in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center has long studied the religiousness and political attitudes of Americans in different religious traditions. This project builds on our major 2011 survey of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a> and our other research on religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This project is based mainly on data from the Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS), a survey of 36,908 randomly sampled U.S. adults conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024. It included interviews with 565 people who currently identify as Latter-day Saints (414 lifelong church members and 151 converts), as well as 316 former Latter-day Saints. 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

Here are more details about the landscape study\u2019s methodology<\/a> and information on the sample sizes and margins of error<\/a> for subgroups of Latter-day Saints analyzed in this project.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

For many people, the image of a Latter-day Saint may be tied to missionaries they\u2019ve seen, clad in white shirts and black name tags, evangelizing to gain converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. <\/p>\n\n\n

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1 in 4 Latter-day Saints were raised in another religious tradition<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
% of\u00a0current<\/strong>\u00a0Latter-day Saint adults (Mormons) raised \u2026<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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* This share rounds to 0% in the 2007 and 2011 surveys.
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Note: Figures may not sum to 100% due to rounding.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Source: Religious Landscape Study of U.S. adults conducted July 17, 2023-March 4, 2024.
\u201cTradition and Change Among Latter-day Saints in the U.S.\u201d<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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