Americans overwhelmingly consider religion an important part of their lives, and less than half of them think Hollywood a corrupting influence, According to a national survey released Monday.
About 92 percent of those interviewed for the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey said they believe in the existence of God or a universal spirit, while only 58 percent said they pray privately every day.
But California, like other states along the country's two coasts, resisted the prevailing national tendencies, the survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life showed.
People in Californian are less likely than other Americans to consider religion "very important" in their lives or to be "absolutely certain" in their belief in God, it found.
The survey also showed that Hollywood, one of California's signature industries and locales, appears to be a corrupting influence at least in the eyes of some Americans.
Forty-two percent of more than 36,000 people interviewed for the 2007 survey said they feel their values are threatened by the entertainment capital, while 56 percent were not threatened.
Source:Xinhua
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