Editing Ohio (section)

===Religion===
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| caption = Religious self-identification, per [[Public Religion Research Institute]]'s 2021 ''American Values Survey''<ref name="Values Atlas">{{Cite web |last=Staff |date=February 24, 2023 |title=American Values Atlas: Religious Tradition in Ohio |url=https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2021/States/religion/m/US-OH |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=[[Public Religion Research Institute]] |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404161714/https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2021/States/religion/m/US-OH |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| label2 = [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholicism]]
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| label3 = [[Irreligion in the United States|Unaffiliated]]
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| label4 = [[Judaism in the United States|Judaism]]
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| label5 = [[Hinduism in the United States|Hinduism]]
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| label6 = Other
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According to [[Public Religion Research Institute]]'s 2021 ''American Values Survey'', 64% of Ohioans identified as [[Christian]]. Specifically, 19% of Ohio's population identified as [[Mainline (Protestant)|Mainline Protestant]], 17% as [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical Protestant]], 7% as [[Black church|Historically Black Protestant]], and 18% as [[Catholic]]. Roughly 30% of the population were unaffiliated with any religious body. Small minorities of [[Judaism|Jews]] (2%), [[Hinduism|Hindus]] (1%), [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] (<1%), [[Islam|Muslims]] (<1%),  [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] (<1%), [[Mormonism|Mormons]] (<1%), and other faiths exist according to this study.<ref name="Values Atlas" /> Altogether, those identifying with a religion or spiritual tradition were 70% of the state's population.

Per the [[Association of Religion Data Archives]]'s (ARDA) 2020 study, Christianity remained the predominant religion. [[Nondenominational Christianity|Non-denominational Christianity]], numbering 1,411,863, were the largest Protestant cohort, although Catholicism remained the single-largest denomination with 1,820,233 adherents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maps and data files for 2020 {{!}} U.S. Religion Census {{!}} Religious Statistics & Demographics |url=https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/node/1639 |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=www.usreligioncensus.org |archive-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115001940/https://www.usreligioncensus.org/index.php/node/1639 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the ARDA, in 2010 the largest Christian denominations by adherents were the [[Catholic Church]] with 1,992,567; the [[United Methodist Church]] with 496,232; the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] with 223,253, the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] with 171,000, the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ with 141,311, the [[United Church of Christ]] with 118,000, and the [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]] with 110,000.<ref name="www.thearda.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/r/s/39/rcms2010_39_state_adh_2010.asp |title=The Association of Religion Data Archives &#124; State Membership Report |publisher=www.thearda.com |access-date=December 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217025357/http://www.thearda.com/rcms2010/r/s/39/rcms2010_39_state_adh_2010.asp |archive-date=December 17, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> With about 80,000 adherents in 2020, Ohio had the [[List of U.S. states by Amish population|second largest Amish population]] of all U.S. states, only behind neighboring [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies">{{Cite web |url=https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/statistics-population-2020/ |title=Amish Population Profile, 2020 |date=August 18, 2019 |website=Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies |access-date=February 5, 2021 |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111151807/https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/statistics-population-2020/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

According to a [[Pew Forum]] poll in 2014, a majority of Ohioans, 56%, felt religion was "very important", 25% that it was "somewhat important", and 19% that religion was "not too important/not important at all". Among them, 38% of Ohioans indicate that they attend religious services at least once weekly, 32% occasionally, and 30% seldom or never.<ref name="pew2014">{{cite web|url=http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/ohio/|title=Religious Landscape Study|date=May 11, 2015|access-date=March 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317164701/http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/ohio/|archive-date=March 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>