About 30 percent of Latino adults are not religiously affiliated, a dramatic increase from just 10 percent in 2010, a new Pew Research Center report found.
Republicans’ and Democrats’ efforts to invoke evangelicalism to win over votes is"not necessarily a long-term strategy for attracting more Latinos,” said Navarro-Rivera.
The move away from mainstream religion “is a question that the U.S. as a whole is facing, because religion and religious communities once played a larger role in the fabric of American life. And this is true for Latinos as well,” said Jens Manuel Krogstad, the report’s lead researcher and a Pew senior writer and editor.But the Latino population may be more religious than the survey shows, said Gastón Espinosa, a professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College.
Catholicism and Latino culture are tightly intertwined, with many of its cultural touchstones based on religious figures — including la Virgen de Guadalupe, the rosary, or even, Rios said, the word “adios,” which means goodbye in Spanish but also literally “to God.” When she ran to become the first Latino City Council member in Palm Desert, Calif., Karina Quintanilla says she worried her atheism would be a stumbling block for voters. But the issue didn’t emerge, except for the occasional constituent who would pray for her — which she saw as a welcome gesture of love and care.
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