Sun, 22 Sep 2002
Pittsburgh ranked 3rd Most Religious Large Metro Area
PittsburghLIVE.com: Pittsburgh ranked 3rd most religious large metro area
The region's strong religious affiliation traces back to two key factors — ethnicity and age, said James Hanigan, chairman of the theology department at Duquesne University.
"People here still identify strongly with their ethnicity," he said. "For many such people, their religion and their ethnicity are somehow tied up, where to be one is to be the other."
With its large number of elderly residents, Pittsburgh also has a comparatively big share of believers from a generation that sees faith as being part of an institutional church, rather than as a purely personal matter that can exist outside organizational walls, Hanigan said.
I'm slowly coming to grips with why I find living here so distasteful.
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