Pew: Half of Americans Who Attend Religious Services Go to More than One Place

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Here's some comfort for those of you celebrating Chrismukkah this month: A quarter of American adults say they sometimes attend religious services of a faith other than their own. That according to a new Pew poll that also finds a third of Americans sometimes attending religious services at more than one place, accounting for about half of the churchgoing public. 

The phenomenon is hardly limited to folks who aren't particularly committed to any church; even among those who attend religious services at least once a week, about 4 in 10 attend at multiple places. Check out this graph from the new Pew report:

Read the full report here.

Also of note: Nearly half of Americans report having had a "religious or mystical experience," more than twice as many who said so in a 1962 Gallup survey. Even 3 in 10 Americans unaffiliated with a particular religious tradition report having had such an experience—more than the number of religious people who reported religious or mystical experiences in the 1960s.

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