Jacqui Frost

To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

Our new study takes a close look at religion among young adults. It shows that young adults in the U.S. today

1) Are less religious than older people
2) Are less religious than young people were a decade ago
3) Have not become more religious in recent years

pewrsr.ch/4pKHIC7

A cover of the book, Unearthing Lifestances, and a description that says: Drawing on interviews from community gardeners in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Norway, Northern Ireland, and the United States, this book explores themes of community-building, ritual, ethics, and relationships with humans, non-humans, and the natural world, arguing for their conceptualization as ‘lifestances’

We're excited to announce the publication of Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (co-edited by Lori Beaman, Ryan Cragun, and Douglas Ezzy), the first in our open-access book series with De Gruyter.

Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

We met up with @sssreligion.bsky.social recently in Minneapolis, Minnesota to ask "What Are You Working On?" Meet emerging scholars and familiar faces working on all things religious scholarship!

How do religious Americans view the current state of the US? Highlighting some findings from the 16th annual American Values Survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).

The 16th annual American Values Survey from @prri.org is live! I break down some of the findings here and encourage you to check out the full report.

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position specializing in the sociology of religion. We are particularly interested in a theoretically engaged scholar whose work addresses religious pluralism in complex modern societies, the relationship between religion, civic engagement, and democratic political cultures, the social and economic impact of religion from a cultural and historical perspective. Relevant questions may include but are not limited to: how does religion shape cultural and political conflicts? How does religion relate not only to political participation but to the shaping of collectives? How do different understandings of the sacred inform the development of, and dispute over, morality? For additional information about our dynamic department, please visit https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/. For questions regarding this position, please contact Isaac Reed, Search Chair, at iar2c@virginia.edu.

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social

Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

Science and religion folks: Check out this job posting at one of the most storied religious studies departments in the country--and share with our junior colleagues!

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that ...

ATTENTION PLEASE. Open access in current issue of @jssreligion.bsky.social

"...[J]ust like the people we study, how scholars make meaning of religious worlds is dependent on what we learn to bring into focus and what we are taught to ignore. As such, we must learn to pay attention to attention."

🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars.

My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Looking for an easy way to follow other members of ASA Religion? Look no further than this Starter Pack!

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2025 Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference Nonreligion and Secularity at Cultural Crossroads 8-10 September 2025 Venue: Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, Bratislava, Conference Book of Abstracts c…

The 2025 Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference will take place on Sept. 8-10 in Bratislava, Slovakia and virtually. It will feature presentations from leading researchers on nonreligion, including many NCF team members. For more details, see here:

thensrn.org/2025-nonreli...

Tule Author Q&A: Christopher Seto talks creativity within constraints, his background in criminology, and shares insights on his upcoming Tule debut! - Tule Publishing Group You’ve got a Ph.D. in criminology and teach at Purdue—what led you from the world of true crime to writing fiction? I read a lot of murder mysteries during my Ph.D. program. Especially classic whodunn...

Some thoughts on criminology + writing crime fiction, featured today on my publisher's blog

tulepublishing.com/2025/08/tule...

Had a great time presenting on the Nonreligions Across the Globe panel at #ISAForum25. I learned a lot about nonreligion in Pakistan and Japan!

Read the newest article from NCF team members Dana Gaudette, Ryan T. Cragun, and Sivert Skålvoll Urstad, "A Disparity in Soul and Afterlife Beliefs: Exploring Cultural Perspectives and Predictors in Nordic Countries," Nordic Journal of Religion and Society

www.scup.com/eprint/6JU5E...

How common is religious switching around the world? A new Pew Research Center post provides insights based on surveys conducted in 117 countries and territories.
Some key findings:
- Globally, 1 in 10 adults under 55 have switched religions since childhood.
More here: pewrsr.ch/46dKGbF

I'm really excited about this paper! And it's open access! Check it out if you are interested in how variation in nonreligious experience predicts variation in health outcomes.

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🌟New Article🌟

“Altruistic Atheists” by Phil Zuckerman & Sophie Myers

What motivates altruistic behavior among people who don't believe in God, were raised in nonreligious families, and live in largely secular societies?

🔗 Read the answer here: doi.org/10.5334/snr....

#Altruism #Nonreligion

Heads-up, early career scholars in religious studies and secularism studies!

The IRCPL at Columbia is accepting submissions for the Claremont Prize, awarded to unpublished book manuscripts on the study of religion. The prize includes publication with CUP.

www.ircpl.columbia.edu/claremont-pr...

How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020 Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed, according ...

NEW: For years, my team has been working on a report about major changes in the global religious landscape between 2010 and 2020.

Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

I'll post key findings below.

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📣Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellow for a scholar with expertise in contemporary American religion. The Fellow will partner with President Wendy Cadge and research collaborators nationally. Start date July, 2025. sssreligion.org/announcement...

Register now for @thensrn.bsky.social's annual virtual lecture, Growing Up Godless: Childhood and the Formation of Non-Religion, featuring @annastrhan.bsky.social and Rachael Shillitoe

May 22, 12:30pm ET

Register here: ut-ee.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Losing Our Religion? It's Not That Simple | Eh Sayers | Episode 25 Is that Canada in the corner? In the spotlight? Are we losing our religion?  The census found that 12.6 million people reported no religious affiliation in 2021, more than 1/3 of Canada's population. ...

Check out this podcast episode titled "Losing Our #Religion? It's Not That Simple" with our Director Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme:
In English: share.transistor.fm/s/b3bb6fe2
In French: share.transistor.fm/s/48a60d76

Really looking forward to giving the NSRN Annual Lecture next month together with Rachael Shillitoe. We’ll be speaking about our research on how and why children are growing up non-religious, and how that plays out in everyday life #atheism #humanism

New study with great collaborators that follows young people from adolescence into adulthood and shows why they are leaving *organized* religion: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Press release summarizing the study: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Thanks Jaime! This is a great summary of our findings. I think our findings also raise some important questions about what we mean by "meaningful" and the different ways survey respondents think about questions related to meaning in life. It was a fun project!

One of the most important findings in the Pew Landscape Study is also echoed in data from the General Social Survey.

The "nones" identity is way stickier now.

In the 1970s, only 36% of folks raised without religion were still nones as adults.

Now, it's 66%.

I’m not sure @jlkucinskas.bsky.social intended this book to be as relevant as it now is. This is a great book that speaks to our current moment. Go get it!

Yuen: What does it mean to be ‘spiritual,’ if not religious, in Minnesota? Latest figures from Pew Research Center show that the share of religiously unaffiliated Americans, or “nones,” after a rapid rise, has leveled off for now.

Smart, thoughtful coverage of the @pewresearch.org's new Religious Landscape Survey in my local paper, the @startribune.com

www.startribune.com/yuen-what-do...