With all the new polls lately on religion and politics it’s hard to keep up with the latest numbers. Luckily, Faith in Public Life has got you covered with a new addition to the issues section of the website: Polling on Faith and Politics. While you’re there, check out the other great resources available on everything from immigration and Darfur to the most recent best sellers on religion and politics.

Some highlights from the new page:

The Baylor Survey of Religion released just yesterday puts a new spin on things by looking at religious beliefs without regard to religious affiliation. Rather than lumping people together into categories like "Protestant", "Catholic" and "Not Religious" and assuming that everyone in those categories holds the same beliefs, this survey compares the actual beliefs and practices of Americans in these groups. Apparently, according to the Baylor stats on non-believers, the so-called atheists in America believe in a lot more than we thought.

The Pew forum has put out numerous polls over the last couple months including one in August highlighting the controversies about the role of religion in politics and one in May which took another look at the supposed “God gap.�

Using the results of a 2004 poll by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, Stan Greenberg outlines his plan for the effective use of religion by Democrats.

In a Center for American Progress poll from June 2006 Americans say wish for a government that is more focused on the common good.

A poll by CBS News shares some frightening statistics on American’s increasingly unfavorable perception of Islam.

Sojourners takes a look at the state of religion in America in a Zogby poll just after the 2004 election.