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What Really Happened to Religion in the 1990s?

Exclude from home pageCurated Content  |  February 4, 2025

Read the full story: Graphs About Religion

I’ve got a lot of data visualizations in the post today, and I don’t want to make it overly long. So, let me just get right to the graph that started me down this rabbit hole. It’s from the General Social Survey, and I am just looking at respondents who are between the ages of 18 and 35. For very keen observers of this newsletter, you will notice that this graph has appeared once before in a post titled, “Four of the Most Dramatic Shifts in American Religion Over the Last 50 Years.” Well, it’s updated now with data from the last couple of waves from the GSS.

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