{"id":74363,"date":"2008-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2008\/12\/19\/the-religious-makeup-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:13:53","slug":"the-religious-makeup-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2008\/12\/19\/the-religious-makeup-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Makeup of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">The charts below highlight key findings from a Pew Forum report, &#8220;<a href=\"\/docs\/?DocID=379\">Faith on the Hill: The Religious Affiliations of Members of Congress<\/a>.&#8221; The report shows that while Congress looks very much like the rest of the country, some religious minorities are underrepresented in the House and Senate, while others are overrepresented.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">For an in-depth examination of the religious makeup of Congress, including party-level differences in religious affiliation and a look at historical trends, <a href=\"\/docs\/?DocID=379\"><strong>go to the full report\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Congress\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/07\/cong1.jpg\" width=\"549\" height=\"640\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"small\">\nSource: Data for Congress from Congressional Quarterly; data for American public from the Pew Forum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>\nData tables available in the <a href=\"\/docs\/?DocID=379\">full report<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charts below highlight key findings from a Pew Forum report, &#8220;Faith on the Hill: The Religious Affiliations of Members of Congress.&#8221; The report shows that while Congress looks very much like the rest of the country, some religious minorities are underrepresented in the House and Senate, while others are overrepresented. 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