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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is from 2020; It seems like we might have more recent data and there's been some shifts?

This is the 2025 report from the same group: https://www.nationalsurveyreligiousleaders.org/s/NSRL-report-2025-clergy-in-america.pdf

They say (page 28):

Evangelical clergy, by contrast, stand out as especially conversionist, with 82% agreeing that it is important to try to persuade people to join them. Only 35% of mainline clergy agreed that such conversion attempts are important, compared to 41% of Black ministers and 52% of Catholic priests saying that. Consistent with their more ecumenical views, mainline clergy are less likely than clergy in any other group to agree that it is important for them to try to persuade people in other religions to accept their religion instead of the person’s current one, though the differences between the mainline percentage and the Catholic and Black Protestant percentages are not statistically significant at the conventional level.

Same question in the new report is here; seems like it's from the same data round though? So that's a bit confusing:

There is an additional question, on how this varies for 'primary' ministers vs others on page 77; feels like it should be broken down by religion first, but I haven't looked closely.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Consistent with their more ecumenical views

I.... Can't help myself....

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