Editing Vermont (section)

===Religion===
{{Pie chart|thumb=right|caption=Religion, per [[Public Religion Research Institute]]'s 2022 ''American Values Survey''{{efn|Note: there is a glitch surrounding the display of Vermont's religious tradition data on ''Public Religion Research Institute''. Click the "list" option if results show "N/A". Do not remove pie chart.}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |date=February 24, 2023 |title=2022 American Values Atlas: Religious Tradition |url=https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2022/States/religion |access-date=March 30, 2023 |website=[[Public Religion Research Institute]]}}</ref>
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|color1=White
|label2=[[Catholicism in the United States|Catholicism]]
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|label3=[[Protestantism in the United States|Protestantism]]
|value3=19
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|label4=[[Jehovah's Witnesses|Jehovah's Witness]]
|value4=4
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|label5=[[Unitarianism|Unitarian]]/[[Unitarian Universalism|Universalist]]
|value5=2
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|label6=[[Mormonism]]
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|label7=[[Hinduism in the United States|Hinduism]]
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|label8=[[American Jews|Jewish]]
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|color8=Pink}}

According to the [[Pew Research Center]] in 2014, 37% reported no religion, the highest rate of irreligion of all U.S. states.<ref name="Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life-2015">{{cite web|date=May 12, 2015|title=America's Changing Religious Landscape|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/|access-date=February 17, 2019|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]: Religion & Public Life}}</ref> The Pew Research Center also determined the largest religion was [[Christianity]];<ref name="Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project">{{Cite web|title=Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics|url=https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/|access-date=April 27, 2021|website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] made up 22% of the population and [[Protestantism|Protestants]] were 30%. In contrast with [[Southern United States|Southern U.S.]] trends, the majority of Protestants are [[mainline Protestant]], dominated by [[Methodism]]. The [[United Methodist Church]] was the largest mainline Protestant denomination in Vermont, followed by the [[American Baptist Churches USA]] and [[United Church of Christ]]. Evangelical Protestants were dominated by [[Independent Baptist|independent Baptist churches]]. Major non-Christian religions were [[Judaism]], [[Islam]], [[Buddhism]], [[Hinduism]], and other faiths. The largest non-Christian religious group outside of irreligion were [[Unitarianism|Unitarians]]. An estimated 3.1% of the irreligious were [[Atheism|atheist]].<ref name="Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project" />

With the publication of a study by the [[Public Religion Research Institute]] in 2020, Christianity spread among Protestantism, Catholicism, and non-mainstream Christians including [[Mormonism]] and the [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] were approximately 64% of the adult population.<ref name="ava.prri.org">{{Cite web |title=PRRI – American Values Atlas |url=https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2020/States/religion/m/US-VT |access-date=September 17, 2022 |website=ava.prri.org}}</ref> The religiously unaffiliated were determined to be an estimated 30% of the total adult population according to the Public Religion Research Institute. As of 2022 per the Public Religion Research Institute, Vermont became plurality [[Irreligion in the United States|irreligious]], and consistently ranks as one of the most secular states in the United States.<ref name="ava.prri.org" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Nicks |first=Denver |date=February 3, 2014 |title=These Are The Most Godless States in America |url=https://time.com/4294/these-are-the-most-godless-states-in-america/ |access-date=April 12, 2023 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref> The 2022 study estimated 48% of the population were religiously unaffiliated, while 45% were Christian altogether (Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, and Jehovah's Witness).

The [[Association of Religion Data Archives]] reported that in 2020, the religiously affiliated population were primarily Christian. The single largest Christian denominations were the following: the Catholic Church (124,208); United Church of Christ (11,882); and the United Methodist Church (9,652). Non-denominational Protestants numbered 29,830.<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=December 10, 2022 |website=www.usreligioncensus.org}}</ref> Among the largest Christian denominations at this study, Catholics had an adherence rate of 208.70 per 1,000 people; the United Church of Christ 18.48 per 1,000 people; and United Methodists 15.01 per 1,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Congregational Membership |url=https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/census/congregational-membership?y=2020&y2=0&t=1&c=50 |access-date=April 15, 2023 |website=Association of Religion Data Archives}}</ref> ARDA's 2020 membership tabulations reflected the Pew Research Center's 2014 study where 21% of the population attended religious services weekly, 32% once or twice a month, and 47% seldom/never.<ref name="Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life-2015" /> In a 2018 research article by the [[National Christian Foundation]], non-churchgoing Christians nationwide did not attend religious services often through practicing the faith in other ways, not finding a house of worship they liked, disliking sermons and feeling unwelcomed, and logistics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why Christians don't go to church anymore (and why they must) |url=https://www.ncfgiving.com/stories/why-christians-dont-go-to-church-and-why-they-must/ |access-date=April 15, 2023 |website=National Christian Foundation |date=October 18, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref>