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Do not fill this in! ===Religion=== [[File:Amana Colonies.JPG|thumb|[[Amana Colonies]] were founded by [[Germans|German]] [[Pietists]].]] [[File:Iowa cross on hill-2.jpg|thumb|[[Christian cross]] on a hill in Iowa]] {{Pie chart | thumb = left | caption = Religious self-identification, per [[Public Religion Research Institute]]'s 2022 ''American Values Survey''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |date=February 24, 2023 |title=American Values Atlas: Religious Tradition in Iowa|url=https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2022/States/religion/m/US-IA|access-date=2023-04-14 |website=[[Public Religion Research Institute]]}}</ref> | label1 = [[Protestantism in the United States|Protestantism]] | value1 = 48 | color1 = Blue | label2 = [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholicism]] | value2 = 20 | color2 = Purple | label3 = [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]]/[[Unitarian Universalism|Universalist]] | value3 = 1 | color3 = Teal | label4 = [[Irreligion in the United States|Unaffiliated]] | value4 = 29 | color4 = White | label5 = Other | value5 = 2 | color5 = Black }} A 2014 survey by [[Pew Research Center]] found 60% of Iowans are [[Protestant]], while 18% are [[Catholic]], and 1% are of non-Christian religions. 21% responded with non-religious, and 1% did not answer.<ref name="pew2014">{{Cite web |url=http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/iowa/ |title=Religious composition of adults in Iowa |website=[[Pew Research Center]] |access-date=August 18, 2019 |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801123423/http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/iowa/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=American Religious Identification Survey 2001 | publisher=The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | url=http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/ARIS/ARIS-PDF-version.pdf | access-date=January 4, 2012 | archive-date=May 16, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516021356/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/ARIS/ARIS-PDF-version.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> A survey from the [[Association of Religion Data Archives]] (ARDA) in 2010 found that the largest Protestant denominations were the [[United Methodist Church]] with 235,190 adherents and the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] with 229,557. The largest non-Protestant religion was [[Catholicism]] with 503,080 adherents. The state has a great number of [[Calvinist]] denominations. The [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]] had almost 290 congregations and 51,380 members followed by the [[Reformed Church in America]] with 80 churches and 40,000 members, and the [[United Church of Christ]] had 180 churches and 39,000 members.<ref name="www.thearda.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/r/s/19/rcms2010_19_state_adh_2010.asp |title=The Association of Religion Data Archives | State Membership Report |publisher=thearda.com |access-date=November 12, 2013 |archive-date=November 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112165913/http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/r/s/19/rcms2010_19_state_adh_2010.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the 2020 [[Public Religion Research Institute]]'s study, 26% of the population were irreligious.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PRRI β American Values Atlas |url=https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2020/States/religion/m/US-IA |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=ava.prri.org}}</ref> The study ''Religious Congregations & Membership: 2000''<ref>{{cite web|title=Religious Congregations & Membership: 2000 |publisher=Glenmary Research Center |url=http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Largest_Group.jpg |format=jpg |access-date=April 24, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214184746/http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Largest_Group.jpg |archive-date=December 14, 2006 }}</ref> found in the southernmost two tiers of Iowa counties and in other counties in the center of the state, the largest religious group was the [[United Methodist Church]]; in the northeast part of the state, including [[Dubuque County, Iowa|Dubuque]] and [[Linn County, Iowa|Linn]] counties (where [[Cedar Rapids]] is located), the [[Catholic Church]] was the largest; and in ten counties, including three in the northern tier, the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] was the largest. The study also found rapid growth in Evangelical Christian denominations. Dubuque is home to the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque|Archdiocese of Dubuque]], which serves as the [[ecclesiastical province]] for all three other dioceses in the state and for all the Catholics in the entire state of Iowa. Historically, religious sects and orders who desired to live apart from the rest of society established themselves in Iowa, such as the [[Amish]] and [[Mennonite]] near [[Kalona, Iowa|Kalona]] and in other parts of eastern Iowa such as [[Davis County, Iowa|Davis County]] and [[Buchanan County, Iowa|Buchanan County]].<ref>Elmer Schwieder and [[Dorothy Schwieder]] (2009) ''A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish'' University of Iowa Press</ref> Other religious sects and orders living apart include [[Quakers]] around [[West Branch, Iowa|West Branch]] and [[Le Grand, Iowa|Le Grand]], German [[Pietists]] who founded the [[Amana Colonies]], followers of [[Transcendental Meditation]] who founded [[Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa|Maharishi Vedic City]], and [[Trappist|Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance]] monks and nuns at the [[New Melleray Abbey|New Melleray]] and [[Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey|Our Lady of the Mississippi]] Abbeys near [[Dubuque, Iowa|Dubuque]]. By 1878, approximately 1000 Jewish people lived in Iowa, many of whom were immigrants from Poland and Germany.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iowa Jewish History |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/iowa-jewish-history |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jewish Settlers in Iowa {{!}} Iowa PBS |url=http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/2477/jewish-settlers-iowa |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=www.iowapbs.org |language=en}}</ref> {{As of|2016}} about 6,000 Jews live in Iowa, with about 3,000 of them in Des Moines.<ref name=Tapper>{{cite news|author=Tapper, Josh|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1.701107|title=Postville, Iowa's Jewish Community Bounces Back After Immigration Raid|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]|date=February 3, 2016|access-date=October 24, 2017|archive-date=October 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024095916/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1.701107|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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