Religion in Utah
A major survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that most Americans have a non-dogmatic approach to faith. “The survey shows religion in America is, indeed, 3,000 miles wide and only three inches deep,” said D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist of religion. According to the survey 6% of the Utah population consider themselves part of the mainline protestant tradition. Another 16% are not affiliated to any believe. Mormonism’s theoretical exclusivism is not part of what most people believe and the survey shows that just every other Utah resident belongs to the LDS church. Every fifth Utahn is or could be a mainline protestant.
See the entire survey at pewforum.org
and the Daily Herald report
