Americans hold a hodgepodge of religious beliefs and practices.

Most (82 percent) of American adults believe in God, according to a recent Harris Poll.

And large numbers believe in miracles (76 percent), heaven (75 percent), that Jesus is God or the son of God (73 percent), in angels (72 percent), the survival of the soul after death (71 percent) and that Jesus was resurrected (70 percent).

But also 42 percent believe in ghosts, 32 percent in UFOs, 26 percent in astrology, 23 percent in witches and 20 percent in reincarnation.

A recent Pew Forum poll that focused more on religious practices and experiences revealed that “large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, blending elements of diverse traditions.” Many blend Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs.

More than a third (35 percent) of the public overall say they regularly (9 percent) or occasionally (26 percent) attend religious services at more than one place, and most of these (24 percent) say they sometimes attend services of a faith different from their own.

Of those who attend religious services at least once a week, 39 percent say they attend at multiple places, and 28 percent go to services outside their faith.

Nearly half of Americans (49 percent) say they have had a “religious or mystical experience,” twice as many as those responding in a 1962 Gallup survey (22 percent).

And 65 percent say they believe in or have experienced at least one of these supernatural phenomena: belief in reincarnation, belief in spiritual energy located in physical things, belief in yoga as a spiritual practice, belief in “the evil eye” (casting curses or evil spells), belief in astrology, having been in touch with the dead, having consulted a psychic or having experienced a ghostly encounter. Thirty-five percent of the public say they have not experienced any of these.

The polls are a further indication of a continuing trend of organized religion losing its grip, and a growing popularity of spirituality, said Tim Miller, professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas.

“There has been a decline in institutional religion, but at the same time independent spiritual experiences are going up,” he said. “So there is a shift from classic institutional religion into a more diverse and sometimes nebulous spiritual outlook.”