Religious Trends

"A growing number of Americans do not follow a religion. But chances are that the details of their lives — from their phones and their politics to their dinner plates and how they raise their kids — are still ruled by some sort of a religious impulse, says author David Zahl." - RNS

“To put it another way, religious decline in Britain is generational; people tend to be less religious than their parents, and on average their children are even less religious than they are.” - Guardian

"Americans' confidence in the church or organized religion continues to erode, with 36% now saying they have 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence in organized religion, establishing another new low point in Gallup's trend." - Gallup

"... the International Religious Freedom Report details the status of religious freedom in nearly 200 foreign countries and territories and describes U.S. actions and policies in support of religious freedom worldwide." - Acton

"There’s a pernicious stereotype that atheists are immoral because we don’t have God in our lives. But, in fact, our beliefs are really no different from society at large." - Patheos

"In a sample of the research released Tuesday, Barna found that... 64% of millennial non-Christians reported having one or more conversations about their beliefs with a Christian, versus 44% for older non-Christians." - Christian Post

"The study found that ... 61 percent of millennial evangelicals (ages 18 through 34), 54 percent of 'boomers and matures' (ages 55 and over) and 44 percent of Generation X (ages 35 to 54) respondents" said they attend church once per week or more. - Christian Post

“At the dawn of the attention industries, then, religion was still, in a very real sense, the incumbent operation, the only large-scale human endeavor designed to capture attention and use it. But over the twentieth century, organized religion, which had weathered the doubts raised by the Enlightenment, would prove vulnerable to other claims on and uses for attention.” - Facts & Trends