In this most recent poll, 3412 people were given a 32 question survey (you can take a sample
Here is a bit of the Executive Summary. Â You can find the whole thing
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7.
Go ahead and take the quiz and let me know how you did. Â I got 14 out of the 15 sample questions right. Â But hey, I am in the biz right? 🙂
Peace, Jim
Cox said...
1Eh, I got 14/15 too. Only one I got wrong was more of a cultural question than a religious one. The one about Pakistan.
10/15/10 12:22 PM | Comment Link
kong said...
215 out of 15 bizatch
10/15/10 1:09 PM | Comment Link
mo said...
314/15. I wonder which one I got wrong…
10/15/10 2:47 PM | Comment Link
jimi adams said...
4As a sociologist who spends a fair amount of my work thinking about religion’s role in society, I’ve ended up thinking about this one a lot. Particularly the numerous far-flung strong reactions to it. I think some more measured reactions to it from people who think about and study these things a lot more than I do were a welcome contribution to the discussion –
10/16/10 7:09 AM | Comment Link
Jason said...
5I got a 14/15. Should have gotten a 15/15. Forgot that Jewish Sabbath was sundown to sundown starting Friday. I realized when I say that was the one I missed that it started sundown. Just curious which one did you miss Jim?
10/16/10 8:51 AM | Comment Link
Candice said...
613/15… got Buddhism and Hinduism mixed up apparently.
10/18/10 10:51 AM | Comment Link
jim said...
7Hey Jason, I missed the one dealing with the concept of nirvana. I protest though, both Hinduism and Buddhism have similar ideas. I should have gotten it right.
10/26/10 2:18 PM | Comment Link