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==Religion== {{Pie chart |thumb = right |caption = Religion in Adams County, according to ARDA (2020) <ref>{{cite web |title=Adams County, Indiana - County Membership Report (2020) |url=https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/census/congregational-membership?y=2020&y2=0&t=0&c=18001 |publisher=The Association of Religion Data Archives}}</ref> |label1 = Evangelical Churches |value1 = 37.4 |color1 = Blue |label2 = Anabaptist Church ( Amish ) |value2 = 22.7 |color2 = DodgerBlue |label3 = Catholic Church |value3 = 8.4 |color3 = Purple |label4 = Mainline Protestant Churches |value4 = 7.1 |color4 = Red |label5 = Black Protestant Churches |value5 = 5.9 |color5 = LightBlue |label6 = Others |value6 = 0.9 |color6 = Orange |label7 = None* |value7 = 17.5 |color7 = White }}*"Nones" is an unclear category.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wuthnow |first1=Robert |title=Inventing American Religion : Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation's Faith |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780190258900 |pages=151β155}}</ref><ref name="Johnson 2022" /> It is a heterogenous group of the not religious and intermittently religious.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blankholm |first1=Joseph |title=The Secular Paradox : On the Religiosity of the Not Religious |date=2022 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=9781479809509 |page=7}}</ref> Researchers argue that most of the "Nones" should be considered "unchurched", rather than objectively nonreligious;<ref name="Johnson 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Byron |last2=Stark |first2=Rodney |last3=Bradshaw |first3=Matt |last4=Levin |first4=Jeff |title=Are Religious "Nones" Really Not Religious?: Revisiting Glenn, Three Decades Later |journal=Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion |date=2022 |volume=18 |issue=7}}</ref><ref name="Unaff Yet Rel" /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hout |first1=Michael |last2=Fischer |first2=Claude S. |title=Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987-2012 |journal=Sociological Science |date=October 13, 2014 |volume=1 |pages=423β447 |doi=10.15195/v1.a24|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Hout 2017">{{cite journal |last1=Hout |first1=Michael |title=American Religion, All or Nothing at All |journal=Contexts |date=November 2017 |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=78β80 |doi=10.1177/1536504217742401|s2cid=67327797 |doi-access=free }}</ref> especially since most "Nones" do hold some religious-spiritual beliefs and a notable amount participate in behaviors.<ref name="Johnson 2022" /><ref name="Unaff Yet Rel">{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Todd |last2=Zurlo |first2=Gina |editor1-last=Cipriani |editor1-first=Roberto |editor2-last=Garelli |editor2-first=Franco |title=Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion: Volume 7: Sociology of Atheism |date=2016 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=9789004317536 |pages=58β60 |chapter=Unaffiliated, Yet Religious: A Methodological and Demographic Analysis}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Drescher |first1=Elizabeth |title=Choosing our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones |date=2016 |location=New York |isbn=9780199341221 |pages=21β26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cox |first1=Kiana |title=Nine-in-ten Black 'nones' believe in God, but fewer pray or attend services |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/17/nine-in-ten-black-nones-believe-in-god-but-fewer-pray-or-attend-services/ |website=Pew Research Center |date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> For example, 72% of American "Nones" believe in God or a Higher Power.<ref>{{cite web |title=Key findings about Americans' belief in God |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/25/key-findings-about-americans-belief-in-god/ |website=Pew Research Center |date=April 25, 2018}}</ref>
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