What is Barack Obama's mother's religion?

Answer 1

Barack Obama's mother wasn't necessarily atheist, but he was raised in a non-religious house. However, Obama describes Ann Dunham as "one of the most spiritually awakened people I have ever known".

Obama's father was an atheist. He was raised a Muslim but Obama has stated that his father was a 'confirmed atheist'. As a young man, Barack was mainly raised by his maternal grandparents, and they were members of the Methodist church.

Answer 2

Obama is a Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household". He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents (whom Obama has specified elsewhere as "non-practicing Methodists and Baptists") to be detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known". He describes his father as "raised a Muslim", but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful". Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand "the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change". He was baptized at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades. Obama resigned from Trinity during the Presidential campaign after controversial statements made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright became public.

Answer 3

He was born a Muslim but turned away from it and became an atheist. His family in Africa have said repeatedly that he became a skeptic and severed all ties with religion, and had no contact with Islam at all. By the time he came to Hawaii, he did not even believe in God.

Answer 4

According to the Audacity of Hope Barack Obama's mother was an atheist. According to Dreams of My Father, so was Obama's father by the time they hooked up.

Answer 5

According to Wikipedia, she was agnostic. In his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope Obama wrote, "I was not raised in a religious household."

Answer 6

Obama's birth father was never really in his life. He was Muslim as well his step father was Muslim.

Answer 7

Obama's grandparents were Seventh-Day Adventists, which is a branch of Christianity.

Answer 8

I would say religion played just about no part in the life of Barrack obama his mother saw religion as so much superstition. while his father had very little contact with him after age 10.