Editing Geauga County, Ohio (section)

==Religion==

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|caption = Religion in Geauga County, according to ARDA (2020) <ref name="arda2020">{{Cite web |title=Geauga County, Ohio - County Membership Report (2020) |url=https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/census/congregational-membership?y=2020&t=0&c=39055 |publisher=The Association of Religion Data Archives}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=August 2023|reason=These numbers don't appear in the given reference}}
|label1 = Catholic Church 
|value1 = 34
|color1 = Purple 
|label2 = Others Evangelical Churches 
|value2 = 19.9
|color2 = Blue
|label3 = Anabaptist Churches (Amish and Mennonite)
|value3 = 10.3
|color3 = DodgerBlue 
|label4 = Mainline Protestant Churches 
|value4 = 6.9
|color4 = Red
|label5 = Black Protestant Churches 
|value5 = 0.5
|color5 = LightBlue 
|label6 = Others 
|value6 = 1.5
|color6 = Orange
|label7 = None
|value7 = 26.8
|color7 = White 
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|+ Religious affiliations in Geauga County, according to ARDA 2010-2020<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geauga County, Ohio - County Membership Report (2010) |url=https://www.thearda.com/us-religion/census/congregational-membership?y=2010&t=0&c=39055 |publisher=The Association of Religion Data Archives}}</ref><ref name="arda2020" />
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! rowspan="2"|Religion
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2010
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2020
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! Number
! %
! Number
! %
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|style="background:#E0F0FF;" | [[Christianity]] || 52,788|| 56.5|| 67,801||71.6
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|style="background:#E0F0FF;"| <small>— Anabaptist Churches</small> || 8,870|| 9.5|| 9,803||10.3
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|style="background:#E0F0FF;"| <small>— Others Evangelical Churches</small> || 4,865|| 5.2|| 18,533||19.9
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|style="background:#E0F0FF;"| <small>— Catholic Church</small> || 30,880|| 33,1|| 32,469||34.0
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|style="background:#E0F0FF;"| <small>— Mainline Protestant Churches</small> || 7,738|| 8.3|| 6,564||6.9
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|style="background:#E0F0FF;"|
<small>-Black Protestant Churches</small>
|185
|0.2
|432
|0.5
|-
|style="background:#F0E0FF;"| Other religions|| 250|| 0.3|| 1,417||1.5
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| style="background:#F5F5F5;" | None*|| 40,601|| 43,5|| 27,596||28.9
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! Total population || colspan="2" | 93,389|| colspan="2" |95,397
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| colspan="5" |*"Nones" is an unclear category.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wuthnow |first=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=151–155}}</ref><ref name="Johnson 2022" /> It is a heterogenous group of the not religious and intermittently religious.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blankholm |first=Joseph |title=The Secular Paradox : On the Religiosity of the Not Religious |date=2022 |publisher=New York University Press |isbn=9781479809509 |location=New York |page=7}}</ref> Researchers argue that most of the "Nones" should be considered "unchurched", rather than objectively nonreligious;<ref name="Johnson 2022">{{Cite journal |last=Johnson |first=Byron |last2=Stark |first2=Rodney |last3=Bradshaw |first3=Matt |last4=Levin |first4=Jeff |date=2022 |title=Are Religious "Nones" Really Not Religious?: Revisiting Glenn, Three Decades Later |journal=Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion |volume=18 |issue=7}}</ref><ref name="Unaff Yet Rel" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hout |first=Michael |last2=Fischer |first2=Claude S. |date=October 13, 2014 |title=Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987-2012 |journal=Sociological Science |volume=1 |pages=423–447 |doi=10.15195/v1.a24 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Hout 2017">{{Cite journal |last=Hout |first=Michael |date=November 2017 |title=American Religion, All or Nothing at All |journal=Contexts |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=78–80 |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 |last=Johnson |first=Todd |title=Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion: Volume 7: Sociology of Atheism |last2=Zurlo |first2=Gina |date=2016 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004317536 |editor-last=Cipriani |editor-first=Roberto |location=Leiden |pages=58–60 |chapter=Unaffiliated, Yet Religious: A Methodological and Demographic Analysis |editor-last2=Garelli |editor-first2=Franco}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Drescher |first=Elizabeth |title=Choosing our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones |date=2016 |isbn=9780199341221 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=21–26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Kiana |date=March 17, 2021 |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}}</ref> For example, 72% of American "Nones" believe in God or a Higher Power.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fahmy |first=Dalia |date=April 25, 2018 |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/ |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Pew Research Center}}</ref>
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