News from Great Britain: despite growing up in the "Decade of Evangelism," over half of the country's 18 -30 year olds have not attended a religious service since childhood. And...over ten percent have never been to church in their lives.
This, according to the latest research commisioned by the London Times: "More than half of Britain’s 18 to 30-year-olds have not attended a religious service outside the traditional rites of “hatch, match and dispatch” since childhood.
More than one in ten have never been to church. Yet 53 per cent still believe in life after death and another 10 per cent are willing to consider the possibility. For church evangelicals this is a paradox of which they are all too aware. Young people are willing to believe in transcendent concepts yet unwilling to step through the doors of a church. The difficulty for religious leaders is how to make those church doors seem less intimidating and dull."
Source: Times of London, 14 September 2004
"Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America; over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian." This information is from "Asian American Religions" , a just-published book by Tony Carnes and Fenggang Yang, that highlights the most recent resarch on Asian American religious practice.
This is the description from Amazon: "Asian American Religions" brings together some of the most current research on Asian American religions from a social science perspective. The volume focuses on religion in Asian American communities in New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, and it includes a current demographic overview of the various Asian populations across the United States. It also provides information on current trends, such as that Filipino and Korean Americans are the most religiously observant people in America, that over 60 percent of Asian Americans who have a religious identification are Christian, and that one-third of Muslims in the United States are Asian Americans.
Rather than organizing the book around particular ethnic groups or religions, Asian American Religions centers on thematic issues, like symbols and rituals, political boundaries, and generation gaps, in order to highlight the role of Asian American religions in negotiating, accepting, redefining, changing, and creating boundaries in the communities' social life."