Research Indicates That Religion Has

Research indicates that religion has

A) never been a very important identity factor for people in North America.
B) has never been as focused on denominational loyalty as it has become in the twenty-first century.
C) changed to that the proportion of the American population identifying as Christian has increased with the evangelical movement and the successes of the "religious right."
D) not changed much at all, as an identity factor or as preference, for more than two hundred years.
E) become more of a preference-like a menu choice at a restaurant-rather than a core identify issue.