How Devout Is Hawaii? Not Very
The Aloha State ranks 41st in the U.S.聽when it comes to religiosity, according to the Pew Research Center.
A majority of people in the Aloha State believe in God with absolute certainty, according to the Pew Research Center. But that doesn鈥檛 necessarily make us devout.
The nonpartisan think tank surveyed more than 35,000 adults across the U.S. as part of its , which was released in November.
The overall finding was that the country is becoming less religious as a whole in large part because of a growing group of Americans 鈥 and in particular millennials 鈥 who say they don鈥檛 belong to an organized faith.
But on Monday the center that now allows you to filter the results by state.
The most religious states were Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. The least religious were New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Hawaii on the list, which is tied with Colorado, with the study results showing that 47 percent of adults here are 鈥渉ighly religious鈥 based on the Pew Research Center鈥檚 overall index.
Other categories in Hawaii鈥檚 religious profile include the percentage of people who say faith is important in their life (44 percent), that they attend a worship service once a week (28 percent), that they pray daily (52 percent), and that they believe in God with absolute certainty (62 percent).
