![]() ![]() And though belief in God is lower among young adults than among older adults, Millennials say they believe in God with absolute certainty at rates similar to those seen among Gen Xers a decade ago. Though young adults pray less often than their elders do today, the number of young adults who say they pray every day rivals the portion of young people who said the same in prior decades. ![]() Pew Research Center surveys show, for instance, that young adults’ beliefs about life after death and the existence of heaven, hell and miracles closely resemble the beliefs of older people today. Yet in other ways, Millennials remain fairly traditional in their religious beliefs and practices. And compared with their elders today, fewer young people say that religion is very important in their lives. Young adults also attend religious services less often than older Americans today. Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than members of Generation X were at a comparable point in their life cycle (20% in the late 1990s) and twice as unaffiliated as Baby Boomers were as young adults (13% in the late 1970s). Fully one-in-four members of the Millennial generation – so called because they were born after 1980 and began to come of age around the year 2000 – are unaffiliated with any particular faith. They also are less likely to be affiliated than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations were when they were young. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today. This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial generation.īy some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans.
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