{"id":74375,"date":"2009-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2009\/02\/10\/religiously-mixed-couples-cupids-arrow-often-hits-people-of-different-faiths\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:13:52","slug":"religiously-mixed-couples-cupids-arrow-often-hits-people-of-different-faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2009\/02\/10\/religiously-mixed-couples-cupids-arrow-often-hits-people-of-different-faiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Religiously Mixed Couples: Cupid\u2019s Arrow Often Hits People of Different Faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>finds that more than one-in-four (27%) American adults who are married or living with a partner are in religiously mixed relationships. If people from different Protestant denominational families are included &#8211; for example, a marriage between a Methodist and a Lutheran &#8211; nearly four-in-ten (37%) couples are religiously mixed. The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life, finds that people who are unaffiliated with a particular religion are the most likely (65%) to have a spouse or partner with a different religious background. Buddhists (55%) also are likely to be married or living with a partner with a religious background different from their own. In contrast, the individuals least likely to marry or live with a partner outside their faith include Hindus (only 10% are married to or live with someone of a different religion), Mormons (17%) and Catholics (22%).<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Fig. 1\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/07\/intermarriage1.gif\" width=\"550\" height=\"357\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <span class=\"small\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>, conducted in 2007 and released in 2008. Based on respondents who say they are married and respondents who say they are living with a partner. <\/span><span class=\"small\">* Includes<\/span> marriages and partnerships between people from different segments of the unaffiliated population (e.g., a marriage between an atheist and an agnostic). ** <span class=\"small\">Includes<\/span> marriages and partnerships between people from different Protestant denominational families (e.g., a marriage between a Methodist and a Lutheran).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">Among all religiously mixed marriages and partnerships, the most common combinations are Protestant-Protestant, where each partner is from a different denominational family (25%); Protestant-Catholic (23%); and Protestant-Unaffiliated (20%).<\/p>\n\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" alt=\"Fig. 2\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/07\/intermarriage2.gif\" width=\"550\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\"><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>, conducted in 2007 and released in 2008. * &#8220;Other faith&#8221; includes all respondents identifying as something other than Protestant, Catholic or unaffiliated. ** &#8220;Other mixed marriages&#8221; includes marriages and partnerships between people of different faiths within the &#8220;Other faith&#8221; group, as well as marriages and partnerships between people from different segments of the unaffiliated population (e.g., a marriage between an atheist and an agnostic). 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