Christianity among Hispanic and Latino Americans

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Roman Catholic. According to a Public Religion Research Institute study in 2017, the majority of Hispanic and Latino Americans are Christians (76%),[1] and about 11% of Americans identify as Hispanic or Latino Christian.[1]

Roman Catholicism

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles

The Spanish and Portuguese took the

Salvadoran American (42%).[2]

Among the Latino Catholics, most communities celebrate their homeland's patron saint, dedicating a day for this purpose with festivals and religious services. Some Latinos syncretize Roman Catholicism and African or Native American rituals and beliefs despite the Catholic Church's teachings against such syncretic combinations of Catholicism and paganism.

Such is the case of

Puerto Ricans
and which combines old African beliefs in the form of Roman Catholic saints and ritual.

Other Christian denominations

A significant number of Latinos are also

Cuban American (16%).[2] And about 32% of Hispanic American Protestants are under the age of 30,[1] and the median ages of Hispanic American Protestants is 37 years.[1]

Among Latino Protestant communities, most are

evangelical, but some belong to mainline denominations. Compared to Catholic, unaffiliated, and mainline Protestant Latinos, Evangelical Protestant Latinos are substantially more likely to attend services weekly, pray daily, and adhere to biblical literalism.[3]

Trends

As of 2014, the majority of Hispanic Americans are Christians (80%),[3] while 24% of Hispanic adults in the United States are former Catholics. 55%, or about 19.6 million Latinos, of the United States Hispanic population identify as Catholic. 22% are Protestant, 16% being Evangelical Protestants, and the last major category places 18% as unaffiliated, which means they have no particular religion or identify as atheist or agnostic.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "America's Changing Religious Identity".
  2. ^ a b "Mexicans and Dominicans more Catholic than most Hispanics".
  3. ^ a b c "The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States". Pew Research Center. 2014-05-07. Retrieved 2019-02-24.

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