Bij de quiz bestaande uit 32 vragen lagen de scores gemiddeld rond de 50%.
Sommige resultaten waren verrassend:
enFor example, it's not evangelicals or Catholics who did best - it's atheists and agnostics.
It's not Bible-belt Southerners who scored highest - they came at the bottom.
Those who believe the Bible is the literal word of God did slightly worse than average, while those who say it is not the word of God scored slightly better.
Barely half of all Catholics know that when they take communion, the bread and wine literally become the body and blood of Christ, according to Catholic doctrine.
Ook is er een sterk verband aangetoond tussen opleidingsniveau en "religieuze kennis". Het feit dat atheisten en agnosten hoog scoorden komt volgens de onderzoekers omdat deze groep meer dan gemiddeld over het/een geloof heeft nagedacht:Jews and Mormons were close behind atheists and agnostics as the group who did best overall on the religion questions, and white evangelical Protestants also tended to get more than half right.
White Catholics averaged exactly half right, followed by mainline Protestants and people who said they were "nothing in particular," both of whom got just under half right.
Black Protestants got just over a third of the questions right, and Hispanic Catholics just under a third, the Pew Forum found.
Het interessante (relatief korte) stukje vind je hier, waar je ook 10 vragen uit de quiz kunt beantwoorden."Very few people say that they were raised as atheists and agnostics," he explains.
About three out of four were raised as Christians, he says.
"They were raised in a faith and have made a decision to identify themselves with groups that tend to be fairly unpopular," atheists and agnostics, he says.
"That decision presupposes having given some thought to these things," which is strongly linked with religious knowledge, he says.
