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King James Still Preferred Bible, Says Scholars; Bible Reading, Memorization Highest Among African Americans"There are no measures, individually or in congregations, where 'black' is not strongly correlated with the most conservative, most active, most involved level of Scriptural engagement, no matter which other group comes closest.” (Indianapolis, IN)—2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. It also marked the beginning of a three-year Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis study of the Bible's place in the everyday lives of Americans. With a $507,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture—a program of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI—set out to answer questions of how, where, when and why ordinary Americans use the Bible. • Seventy percent of all blacks said they read the Bible outside of public worship services, compared to 44 percent for whites, 46 percent for Hispanics and 28 percent for all other races • Bible memorization is highest among black respondents, 69 percent, compared to 51 percent among white conservative Protestants and 31 percent among white moderate/liberal Protestants • Women were more likely to read than men; older people were more likely to read than younger; Southerners were more likely to read than those of any other region • The percentage of verse memorizers among Bible readers (48 percent) equates to roughly a fourth of the American population as a whole, or nearly 80 million people • Younger people, those with higher salaries and, most dramatically, those with more education among the respondents read the Bible on the Internet or an e-device at higher rates "We are hopeful that some of our findings—especially that people read the Bible more for personal prayer and devotions than for the culture war issues we constantly hear about in the news—will add to the media's understanding of religion. Religion can be political, but it usually is not." Goff's co-investigators are Arthur Farnsley, associate director of the center; and Peter Thuesen, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at IUPUI. The second stage of the study is a national conference Aug. 6 to 9 in Indianapolis. The project will culminate with the publication of at least two books, one by the project's principal investigators, and the second an edited volume of expanded papers presented at the conference.
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