The large majority of adherents to the world’s major religions are not fundamentalists. 22.Canada has the highest degree of religious pluralism in the world. Protestants in the United States are so diverse they almost defy generalization. Probably the most important issues dividing contemporary U.S. Catholics from the authority of the broader Roman Catholic church are attitudes about women in general and sexuality in particular. 25.Religious identity is stronger in congregations that are homogenous in ethnicity, customs, and language. 26.African-American churches have traditionally not played a political role. 27.Religious homogeneity is more evident among Catholics than among Protestants. 28.Compared to Protestants and Catholics, there are far more demographic differences between Jews. 29.There are only about 1 million Muslims in the United States. 30.The interplay of religion and political life is performed much the same in democratic, religiously pluralistic states as it is in authoritarian religious states. 31.Adherents of the New Christian Right seek to reverse the tide of gender equity. 32.An examination of religion in the U.S. reveals that a major trend toward secularization has not taken place.