To my knowledge, it’s Jews and Episcopalians… these two groups have the highest average education and highest average income in the United States.
But Jews are divided – the most liberal are called Reform, the most conservative are Orthodox, and those in the middle are called Conservative, while half of Jews are not religious and/or do not affiliate with any of these.
So which group of Jews is counted in the “highest average education & income” statistic? All ethnic Jews?
And how do these 4 groups of Jews compare in terms of education and income? (I would guess, from highest to lowest, the order would be:
unaffiliated/agnostic/atheist
Reform
Conservative
Orthodox
Is this correct?
Are these people’s high educational and career attainment due to something about their religions? If so, what? Or are they due to other factors? (Maybe high IQ in the case of Jews, and high class & IQ in the case of Episcopalians?)
Are there some other high-achieving religious groups? What about Unitarians? Presbyterians? Baha’i? Anyone know?
I’m assuming that Evangelicals, Baptists, Catholics and Muslims are all at the bottom… correct?
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Jews, Episcopalians The Richest, Most Successful Religious Groups?
Posted on October 9, 2012.
calling them successful in terms of social progression is like calling a thief successful in his latest heist.
if we read between th line we would have a lot to know, thanks for th information!
sorry, i do not know all th answers but i totally agree that Evangelicals, Baptists, Catholics and Muslims are all at the bottom, but i want to know why?!!
http://www.pewforum.org/Income-Distribut…
is from the Pew memorial trust. It shows income in broad ranges by religion. Jewish is first, Hindu second, Orthodox third. (Orthodox Christian – Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and so on, not Orthodox Jews.) The “Historically black protestant churches” are at the bottom, reflecting the sad legacy of African Americans in our society. There is a black man in the White House, but Blacks have been at the bottom of the income and education scale for almost 400 years in the USA.
Hindus are an anomaly here in the USA, because the Hindus who can come to the USA are the highly educated ones – doctors, engineers, computer programmers and so forth. Poorly educated dirt-poor farmers don’t leave India. There are not very many east Indians in the USA, but the ones that are here are, per capita, well to do.
The Jewish people have traditionally valued education more than some other things; upper body strength, for one, so there are more Jews per capita in the AMA than the NFL.
I have heard that the median education level of Unitarian Universalists is “some graduate work”. I don’t know if that is true or not. I do know that I was at my UU church one day, unloading 2×2 concrete pavers from the back of a pickup one day and realized the five of us were probably the best educated team of manual laborers in the county; 3 Ph. Ds, one MBA and me, with a lowly BA. Last Saturday, again at my church, a dentist, a retired college librarian, the MBA fellow and I filled a dumpster with garden trimmings and used cyclone fence debris.
Note that higher education sometimes translates as higher income and sometimes doesn’t.
Note you’d have to define “successful”. “What doth it profit a man” and so forth.http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report…
breaks down income by denomination, sort of, but it is hard to read.