Top Rank                      Middle Rank                                        Bottom Rank
 

Unitarian-                      Mormons                                           White Southern Baptists
Universalists

Jews                              No religious preference                      Adventists

Episcopalians               Christian Scientists                              Nazarenes

Presbyterians               Methodists                                           Assemblies of God

United Church               Catholics                                             Jehovah's Witnesses
of Christ
                                       Lutherans                                            Black Northern Baptists

                                       Misc. Evangelicals/                             Misc. Penacostals/
                                       Fundamentalists                                  Holiness

                                      Christians                                             Churches of God
                                      (Disciples of Christ)

                                     White Northern Baptists                      Black Southern Baptists

                                      Churches of Christ

                                      Reformed
 

Unitarian                           1
Disciples of Christ            2
Agnostic                            3
Contregationalist              4
Episcopalian                      5
Eastern Orthodox             6
Jewish                               7
Presbyterian                     8
Hindu                                9
NRMs                            10
Buddhist                         11
No Religion                    12
Catholic                          13
Luteran                          14
Protestant                      15
Methodist                      16
Mormon                         17
Churches of Christ        18
Muslim                          19
Assemblies of God       20
Christian Sience           21
Evangelical                   22
Bretheren                     23
Christian                       24
Nazarene                      25
Baptist                          26
Pentecostal                   27
7th-Day Adventist        28
Holiness                        29
Jehovah's Witnesses   30
 

                                                              1930-1931       1992-1993

PROTESTANT
ESTABLISHMENT

Episcopalian                                                21.94          18.04

Presbyterian                                                20.31          13.91

Congregationalist/UCC                               11.29            3.19
 

OTHER ELITE

Unitarian-Universalis                                    5.98            2.39

Quaker                                                           1.09              .65
 

CATHOLIC                                                   4.45          23.12
 

JEW                                                                1.31         12.32
 

OTHER PROTESTANT

Baptist                                                            8.97           4.71

Disciples of Christ                                         2.05             .35

Lutheran                                                        2.41            6.01

Methodist                                                    14.50            9.57

Reformed                                                      1.00              .36
 

OTHER

Mormon                                                           .39           1.52

Christian Science                                            .69             .22
 

ALL OTHERS                                              3.62           3.63
 

NO AFFILIATION LISTED                     43.86          65.66
 

                                                                      1930-1931       1992-1993

PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENT

Episcopalian                                                         7.87           7.41

Presbyterian                                                         3.60           2.82

Congregationalist/UC                                          4.49           2.57
 

OTHER ELITE

Unitarian-Universalist                                       18.24           5.11

Quaker                                                                 3.87           1.30
 

CATHOLIC                                                          .15              .92
 

JEW                                                                      .88             5.17
 

OTHER PROTESTANT

Baptist                                                                   .46             .22

Disciples of Christ                                                 .69             .34

Lutheran                                                                .24             .79

Methodist                                                              .82           1.04

Reformed                                                              .48            .88
 

OTHER

Mormon                                                                 .50            .54

Christian Science                                                 1.96           2.09
 

ALL OTHERS                                                       .38             .15
 
 

                                                                      1930-1931       1992-1993

PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENT

Episcopalian                                                        5.59               6.44

Presbyterian                                                        3.23               2.62

Congregationalist/UCC                                       6.20               2.53
 

OTHER ELITE

Unitarian-Universalist                                        21.62          14.81

Quaker                                                                  5.09          12.70
 

CATHOLIC                                                            .12              .74
 

JEW                                                                         .66            7.23
 

OTHER PROTESTANT

Baptist                                                                      .66            .22

Disciples of Christ                                                   .65            .32

Lutheran                                                                   .37            .90

Methodist                                                                 .91            .82

Reformed                                                                 .81            .84
 

OTHER

Mormon                                                                   .25            .87

Christian Science                                                   1.22             --
 

ALL OTHERS                                                         .71            .23
 

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS BY INCOME AND EDUCATION

                                                   Recent             Literal             Inspired             Fable
                                                   Creation           Truth              Word
EDUCATION

College Graduates                        25                 14                     54                     29
Partial College                              40                 17                     63                     19
H.S. Graduates                             52                 37                     50                     11
Not H.S. Graduates                      65                 58                     29                      8
 

INCOME

 $50,000 & Over                           29                 14                     59                     25
 $30,000-$49,999                          44                 27                     56                     16
 $20,000-$29,999                          46                 29                     53                     18
 Under $20,000                             59                 49                     38                       9