{"id":7148,"date":"2010-09-30T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2013-05-10T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:45:28","slug":"greg-smith-us-religious-knowledge-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2010\/09\/30\/greg-smith-us-religious-knowledge-survey\/7148\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Smith: US Religious Knowledge Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1405.pew.survey.m4v --><\/p>\n<p>A senior researcher at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices\/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life<\/a> says atheists, agnostics, Jews, and Mormons stand our for their knowledge of world religions other than Christianity, while Mormons and evangelical Protestants do best on questions about the Bible and Christianity. <em>Interview by Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly associate producer for news Julie Mashack. Edited by Fabio Lomelino.<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/features.pewforum.org\/quiz\/us-religious-knowledge\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to take Pew&#8217;s religious knowledge quiz<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior researcher at the Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life says atheists, agnostics, Jews, and Mormons stand out for their knowledge of world religions other than Christianity, while Mormons and evangelical Protestants do best on questions about the Bible and Christianity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2010\/09\/30\/greg-smith-us-religious-knowledge-survey\/7148\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8745,1308,1066,17916,8740,7615,6377,5129,1370,8746,26,8744,1371],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agnostics","tag-atheists","tag-catholics","tag-evangelical","tag-greg-smith","tag-jews","tag-mainline","tag-mormons","tag-pew","tag-protestants","tag-religion","tag-religious-knowledge","tag-survey","topics-us-domestic-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greg Smith: US Religious Knowledge Survey | September 30, 2010 | Religion &amp; 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