"The Prestige-Piety feedback loop" ggd.world/p/what-explain…

Malaysia and Indonesia are both increasingly embracing fiqh jurisprudence, stricter religosity. This is counter to Inglehart's Modernisation Theory that everyone would eventually liberalise. If Piety is Prestigious, then economic development and technological connectivity

Modernisation does not always (directly) lead to secularisation

In 1965, the Catholic Church had 179,000 sisters in America. Today: 33,000. That's an 82% collapse in 60 years. Priests have declined as well, but not as severely. 59K down to 35K. Used to 3 Sisters for every priest. Now it's 1:1.

Do you need to believe in God to be moral and have good values? Views on this question vary widely around the world, according to our 2025 survey of 25 countries. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Im globalen Vergleich liegt Deutschland liegt bei der Akzeptanz von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen und Homosexualität weit vorne. Das zeigt eine neue internationale Studie des Pew Research Centers. hpd.de/artikel/homose…

What do Americans consider immoral? Dive deeper into our U.S. morality report: pewresearch.org/religion/2026/…

Mahayana Buddhism is hemorrhaging believers. Pew quotes (1) Korean woman as saying, "I've always thought it's better to live focusing on this world. That's why I don't have a religion"

Different conceptions of religion, and priorities in life.

One in four people raised Muslim have left Islam, which means that all polls of Muslim opinion substantially understate the degree of Muslim immigrant assimilation since leaving Islam is a type of assimilation. In my post today I document how big this bias...

The sample of US Muslims who left Islam was *77 PEOPLE* If you look at the underlying data, Muslims are a little unusual: exceptionally conservative, but those who leave are extremely liberal. Pew has shown that many US ex-Muslims are Iranians who left the Islamic Republic -

When Gen X was 18-29 years old: 18% identified as non-religious. When Millennials were 18-29 years old: 34% identified as non-religious. Among Gen Z currently: 41% identify as non-religious.

The share of Gen Z who believe in God without a doubt: 40%. That's 8 points lower than Millennials. 14 points lowers than Gen X. 17 points lower than Boomers.

Glaube da muss auch Soziologie und Kommunikationsforschung herangezogen werden. Denn die neue Form politischer Meinungsbildung macht andere Bevölkerungssegmente im Staat wirkungsmächtiger, die durch Demagogie verführbarer sind.

"What about sexual relations between two adults of the same sex?" Here's when the "not wrong at all" crossed the "always wrong" line: Evangelicals: Never Mainline: 2009 Black Protestant: 2023 Catholic: 2009 Other Faith: 2000 No Religion: 1992

In Washington hat ein mehrtägiger “Bibelmarathon” begonnen. Präsident Donald Trump, republikanische Politiker sowie evangelikal ausgerichtete Prediger und Publizisten lesen die gesamte Bibel vor. Mit klarer Zielrichtung. evangelische-zeitung.de/bibelmarathon-…

Weird little data point to consider. Gen Z atheists are WAY less angry about religion compared to older atheists. Only 30% of Gen Z atheists say that religion has no place in the modern world. It's 55% of Boomer atheists.