Last week I showed that 1-in-5 Latinxs are nones, representing roughly 8 million Latinx adults in the United States. Today, in the second post of this three-part series, I show where Latinx nones come from. The vast majority of Latinx nones reported in the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape survey that they were raised Catholic when they were children. When adding up all the Christian groups, about 8-in-10 Latinxswho identify as nones were raised in a Christian tradition.
Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is political scientist who specializes in American and Comparative political behavior He specializes in the intersection of race, religion, and politics in the United States with a particular emphasis on the political behavior of the Nones, and the rise of Latinx Nones. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies and a Gratis Research Scholar at El Instituto: Institute of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at the University of Connecticut. He holds degrees from the University of Connecticut (Ph.D. & M.A.) and the Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Río Piedras (B.A.).