64% of online Americans have used the Internet for religious or
spiritual purposes
WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Nearly two-thirds of online Americans use
the Internet for faith-related reasons. The 64% of Internet users
who perform spiritual and religious activities online represent
nearly 82 million Americans.
Among the most popular and important spiritually-related online
activities measured in a new national survey by the Pew Internet
& American Life Project:
Laptop Battery # 38% of the nations128 million Internet users have sent and
received email with spiritual content.
# 35% have sent or received online greeting cards related to
religious holidays.
# 32% have gone online to read news accounts of religious events
and affairs.
# 21% have sought information about how to celebrate religious
holidays.
# 17% have looked for information about where they could attend
religious services.
# 14% have used email to plan church meetings.
# 11% have downloaded or listened to religious music online.
# 7% have made or responded to online prayer requests.
# 7% have made donations to religious organizations or
charities.
Most Americans are seeking to connect with something larger than themselves in a spiritual or religious way. In fact, Beliefnet poll of over 1, 000 people, 79 percent described themselves as spiritual, and another 64 percent said they're religious.
Thinkpad In sum, 64% of Internet users said they had done at least one of
these things online and many had done more than one. This figure
represents a substantially higher number of online faithful than
the Pew Internet & American Life Project has measured in the
past. The Project worked with scholars from the University of
Colorado at Boulder to devise a new battery of questions to prompt
Internet users recollections of the things they do online on
matters related to religion and spirituality.
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Microsoft There has been much speculation about the impact of the Internet
on religion, particularly as increasing numbers of Americans have
been turning to sources other than their own traditions and clergy,
said Prof. Stewart Hoover of the University of Colorado at Boulder,
the lead author of the Pew Internet Project report.
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Laptop Computers The survey provides clear evidence that the majority of the
online faithful are there for personal spiritual reasons, including
seeking outside their own traditions, Hoover added, but they are
also deeply grounded in those traditions, and this Internet
activity supplements their ties to traditional institutions, rather
than moving them away from church. The survey found that two-thirds
of those who attend religious services weekly use the internet for
personal religious or spiritual purposes.
are emerging as a vital tool to help religious organizations connect with their audiences, particularly younger members who are accustomed to the Internet and email as primary resources for information. four percent of U.S. with 38 percent having sent and received email with spiritual content (Pew Internet and American Life Project). With more members online, growing groups for email adoption.
Laptop Computer The report, Faith Online, says that those who use the Internet
for religious or spiritual purposes are more likely to be women,
white, middle aged, college educated, and relatively well-to-do. In
addition, they are somewhat more active as Internet users than the
rest of the Internet population.
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Desktop Computer The online faithful are quite serious about their spiritual
journeys, and they are committed to those in their social networks
who accompany them on those journeys, said Prof. Lynn Schofield
Clark of the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-author of the
report. Most of the online faithful describe themselves as
spiritual and religious and that is a perfect characterization of
their use of the Internet. They probe for information and network
with others in order to enrich their spiritual lives.
Notebooks # 28% of the online faithful said they had used the Internet to
seek or exchange information about their own religious faith or
tradition with others.
# 26% said they had used the Internet to seek or exchange
information about the religious faiths or traditions of others.
Lenovo Online Evangelicals are a significant subgroup of the American
religious landscape. This study found them to resemble other
Protestants in terms of their Internet behaviors in some ways, but
to be unique in other ways. They are slightly less experienced in
Internet use than other categories of religious affiliation. But
they are more likely than others to engage in all categories of
online religious activity.
Hard Drive The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit,
non-partisan research center, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts
to explore the social impact of the Internet. It does not advocate
policy outcomes.
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