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50% Americans have had ‘religious transformation’

WASHINGTON: One in two Americans have undergone a spiritual or religious revelation which has changed their lives, according to a new survey published Friday.

“Spiritual change is a powerful experience in America,” said Tom Smith, director of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

“Spiritual and religious change experiences are common, with 50 percent of Americans having undergone one or more,” Smith said.

The research showed that most religious awakenings come to Americans when they are young adults, and often take place when someone is facing challenges in life, like an illness or the loss of someone close to them.

Religious transformations were least common in liberal northeastern New England, and most often reported in the conservative south, the research based on a 2004 poll of 1,400 people showed.

Polls regularly show that the United States is among the most religious of developed Western nations. afp

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