Online Religious Services Appeal to Many Americans, but Going in Person Remains More Popular

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About a quarter of U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online; 21% use apps or websites to help with reading scripture

A family virtually participates in a Lutheran service from their living room in May 2020, while their church was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images)

Pew Research Center conducted this survey to explore how Americans use technology in their religious lives. For this report, we surveyed 11,377 U.S. adults from Nov. 16-27, 2022. All respondents to the survey are part of Pew Research Center's American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, religious affiliation and other categories. For more, see the ATP's methodology and the methodology for this report.

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