HeyJaredGraphs about Religion
Tons of data analysis about religion and politics. Mostly in the United States but a little bit of international stuff, too.
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Are Black Protestants and White Evangelicals Actually the Same? (opens the original)
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Classifying American religion is hard. It’s nearly impossible, really. There are hundreds of denominations, and that doesn’t even include all the variations of non-denominational churches that are popping up all over the United States. But part of the role of social science is to try and bring some order and structure to such a messy landscape. And there’s no way to do it in a way that makes everyone happy.The system empirical social science has coalesced around is called RELTRAD, and it was fir
Why Private Religion and Public Religion Tell Different Stories (opens the original)
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Religious behavior is almost always assessed through one simple measure - frequency of religious attendance. And there’s a good reason for that: it’s included in basically every survey of American adults. So it’s easy to just copy and paste it from another long running instrument and know that it’s already gone through multiple rounds of critical assessment by other folks in the field. The problem with that, as you can probably guess, is that it’s overly reductive.Some people are incredibly reli
Why Do Educated People Go to Church More? (opens the original)
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Are you a social scientist who wants to do an experiment related to religion and politics and need some funding to make that possible? I have partnered with the team who is organizing Survey Experiments for the Scientific Study of Religion to help publicize this program. You can read about it below, along with a link to apply for funding. And expect some of the posts on Graphs about Religion in 2027 to use data collected through this research initiative. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-i
Parents and Adult Children Aren't Fighting as Much as TikTok Thinks (opens the original)
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The Religious Behavior Index: How Engaged Are Americans, Really? (opens the original)
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In 1972, 41% of Americans in the General Social Survey reported that they attended religious services nearly every week or more. In 2024, that share had declined to just about 25%. At the same time, the share of those who never attend religious services rose from 9% to 30%. If I include people who attend more than never but less than once a year, those percentages become 17.5% and 40.5%, respectively.Said simply, about a quarter of Americans report that they attend a house of worship at least a
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