the Racially Congregations Diverse Becoming More Racially Diverse Among Americans who attend houses of worship, % who attend places where
The move occurs amid a larger, but slow-moving, national trend. While the degree of racial segregation within religious congregations remains high, some houses of worship in the U.S. have become more diverse in recent years, according to findings from the most recent (2012) National Congregations Study (NCS), directed by Duke University researcher Mark Chaves. (The most recent study received financial support from the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project.)
the Racially Congregations Diverse Becoming More  | Racially Diverse  | Among Americans who attend houses of  | worship, % who attend places where  | No single racial or ethnic  | Non-Hispanic whites  | ma ke up 100%  | group 80% single ma kes uu at least  | group 80% of ma the kes congregation uu at least  | of the congregation  | 20%  | 20%  | 17%  | 15%  | 14%  | 11%  | 1998 '06 '07 2012  | 1998 '06'07 2012  | Source: Chaves Mark, and Shawna Anderson. 2014  | "Changing Chaves Ame rican Congregations: Findings from the Third  | "Changing Wave of the National Congregations: Congregations Study Journal for the  | Scientific Study of Religion  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 