Pew Study: Latter-day Saints Among the Most Religiously Active

Abstract

Coverage of the 2025 Pew Religious Landscape Study: Latter-day Saints lead U.S. religious traditions in family-level religious practice — praying and reading scripture with family, praying more often overall, reading sacred text outside of formal worship, and attending services in person at higher rates than any other tradition.

Findings for Latter-day Saints

• Latter-day Saints lead U.S. religious traditions in family-level religious practice.
• Higher rates of family prayer and family scripture reading than any other tradition surveyed.
• Higher overall prayer frequency, scripture reading outside formal worship, and in-person attendance.

Limitations in methodology

News article summarizing Pew data — see the Pew RLS 2024 source for the underlying methodology.

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Cite this study

Unknown (2025). Pew Study: Latter-day Saints Among the Most Religiously Active. The Salt Lake Tribune. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/02/26/pew-study-latter-day-saints-among/

Unknown. "Pew Study: Latter-day Saints Among the Most Religiously Active." The Salt Lake Tribune, 2025. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/02/26/pew-study-latter-day-saints-among/.

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