Internet Sacred Text Archive Home. ♱ RELIGION ♱ About Faith. Religious conversion sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but it's an everyday reality: About a third of us have switched our religious affiliation at some point.
According to surveys conducted by the City University of New York, well-established faiths like the Methodists have been dwindling. Big gainers include the born-again Evangelicals, the Seventh Day Adventists and the Pentecostals—and the Buddhists, too—as well as nondenominational Christian churches. Which group is growing the fastest? The 29.5 million Americans who claim no religion at all.
Philosophy of Religion.