Unchurched Believers: Political Tension and Generation Succession

Unchurched Believers: Political Tension and Generation Succession

Neyman Seminar
Nov 17, 2010, 04:10 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Michael Hout, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology (Speaker)
In 2002 we reported that the fraction of American adults with no religious preference doubled from 7 to 14 percent during the 1990s. Recent data show that the trend away from organized religion continues, perhaps at a slower pace. Or perhaps the trend started earlier than we thought – maybe as early as 1985. If so our previous estimate of the rate of change (over the short period 1991-2000) was,...