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Protestants are most likely to sample worship services outside their tradition - 3 in 10 say they have attended Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or other services at least occasionally in the past year. African-American Protestants lead this trend, with 42% visiting houses of worship in other traditions, including Catholic churches (19%), Jewish synagogues (8%) and Muslim mosques (5%). One-quarter of white evangelicals share that interest in other traditions. But they are also the most likely to stay close to home: more than half say they attend services only at their own church, not even visiting other churches in the same...
There seems to be particular interest among Protestants in Catholic services, a development perhaps reflected in Pope Benedict XVI's recent move to welcome dissatisfied Anglicans to worship within the Catholic tradition. Significant numbers of Protestants say they sometimes attend Catholic Mass, including 19% of African-American Protestants and 13% of white evangelicals. The curiosity doesn't run as strong in the other direction, however; only 18% of all Catholics report attending Protestant services...
...willing to dip their toes into other holy water. Weekly church attendance has long been associated with high levels of religious commitment, but more than one-quarter (28%) of those who attend services at least once a week told the Pew researchers that they visit other houses of worship at least occasionally. This crossing of traditions is even more popular among monthly churchgoers - 40% of them report attending other faith services...
...interfaith marriages tend to be less religiously observant than couples who belong to the same tradition - after all, it can be easier to accept a spouse from another faith if you're not terribly connected to your own. Overall, people in what the researchers call "religiously mixed marriages" attend worship services far less often than their same-religion peers, and they are no more likely to attend services outside their tradition...
However, individuals in interfaith marriages who do have some degree of religious commitment - attending worship services at least yearly - are actually more likely to be interested in a variety of faiths and to attend multiple types of services. More than 4 in 10 interfaith spouses (43%) report visiting other houses of worship, compared with roughly 3 in 10 people married to a spouse from the same faith...