From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religious News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/religiousnews/s-412864-845039
More than half of U.S. adults say they have been helped by a guardian
angel, a university poll indicated Thursday.
Fifty-five percent of 1,648 respondents to a random survey said they
had been "protected from harm by a guardian angel," representatives of
the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion said at a
Washington news conference.
"That was something that was a complete surprise because this is not a
question, do you believe in guardian angels or do you believe in
angels," survey director Christopher Bader said.
"This is a very specific question: Do you believe you have been
protected from harm by a guardian angel? Do you believe you avoided an
accident through the agency of a guardian angel? To find out that more
than half of the American public believes this was shocking to me. I
did not expect that," Bader said.
Evangelical and black Protestants are more likely than mainline
Protestants, Catholics or Jews to report religious or mystical
experiences, the survey found.
Women, African-Americans and Republicans are also more apt to have
mystical experiences than the average, the survey found.
Even 20 percent of those saying they have no religion said they
experienced angelic intervention, the survey found.
The phone and mail survey, conducted for the institute by the Gallup
Organization in October and November 2007, has a margin of error of 4
percentage points.