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https://www.thearda.com/ The ARDA includes a variety of tools designed to foster better research, teaching, and understanding of religion data. Always free to access. Nonpartisan/nonsectarian.
Have you taken the ARDA's online course? Exploring Religion is a free college-level offering that allows students to explore religion in America and around the globe. Sessions include readings, video interviews, guided exercises, and discussions. The course is asynchronous and entirely virtual.
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Cultural Jews and Cultural Catholics?
The latest #AheadOfTheTrend column looks at data comparing religion as faith tradition versus cultural identity. In this piece, @ryanburge.bsky.social analyzes survey data from @pewresearch.org on cultural Jews and Catholics.
Interactively explore major events, issues, and people relating to racial minorities in the history of American religion. ARDA’s "Race/Ethnicity and Religion Timeline" places a wealth of information—including text, pictures, and graphs—within historical context.
Find the free resource below.
Americans differ greatly in the degree to which they share their religious faith. This Jr./Sr. High learning module will explore how Americans share their faith with others and look at some of the general differences by race, gender, and religious tradition.
Explore the free module on the ARDA!
Read the full analysis of this and other #AheadOfTheTrend articles: www.thearda.com/categories/a....
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Check out the data visualizations from the latest #AheadOfTheTrend, Do Americans Care Who Their Boss Is?
Head to the ARDA site for the full analysis and insights from the @pewresearch.org dataset. (Link in the comments!)
Lilly Endowment is inviting proposals for its new Exploring Christian Practices Initiative. This opportunity aims to build and enhance programs that help individuals address their spiritual interests, find and build community with others, and nourish their religious lives.
Find out more below!
Do Americans Care Who Their Boss Is?
In the latest installment of #AheadOfTheTrend, we look to see if data shows whether workers prefer to have a boss of the same gender as themselves. Do the responses reflect views that are frequently shaped, at least in part, by religious teachings?
Join us tomorrow (1/22) for Religion & Podcasts As Public Engagement, the first #ReligionAnd of 2026! We will be hosting the conversation at a special time (12 p.m. Eastern) via Zoom with panelists who host podcasts on American religion.
Register today at raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel....
Does religion prevent individuals from committing crimes? How does religion shape an individual’s perception of crime and deviance? These are the type of questions sociologists ask and that this college-level learning module will explore.
Download the free Learning Module on the ARDA.
As a Research Fellow for @kettering.org, ARDA Executive Co-Director @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social wrote a column expressing how it is vital to know who is in our communities and what their needs might be. He highlights the Community Profile Builder as a resource to help inform community leaders.
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Discover the free Community Profile Builder at www.thearda.com/us-religion/....
15.01.2026 20:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you explored the ARDA's free Community Profile Builder resource? This tool assists church, community, and scholarly leaders in accessing online demographic and religious information about communities across the United States.
Explore the CPB today on the ARDA. (Link in the comments!)
Are Never Attenders More Secular Today?
The latest installment of #AheadOfTheTrend utilizes data from the 2024 General Social Survey to better understand whether those who never attend services today are further removed from other measures of religiosity than in the past.
Social researchers must be careful to make sure that the measures they use are valid. That is, do the questions measure what we think they measure? This free learning module will use data from the General Social Survey 2024 and 2014 to explore the differences between attitudes and behaviors.
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Is Christmas a Religious Holiday? In this special holiday edition of #AheadOfTheTrend, @ryanburge.bsky.social explores data from @prri.org on who celebrates Christmas. It may not surprise you that 87% of non-religious folks said they did.
Read the full article here and have a happy holiday!
This year, David Briggs received Religion News Association’s William A. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award. David launched the Ahead of the Trend column in 2009 and contributed more than 200 entries.
Read our full #AheadOfTheTrend article on David's award and career at www.thearda.com/categories/a....
Did you know the ARDA offers in-depth guides that focus on a specific aspect of a community, like housing, education, or income? These guides offer more detailed directions for exploring all of the data Community Profile Builder's data and can be downloaded for free on our website.
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The Slow Grind of Change: What the 2024 GSS Tells Us About American Religion
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There are a lot of insights from the latest article of #AheadOfTheTrend that show what the 2024 General Social Survey tells us about the state of American Religion. View the data visualizations and read the full article now on the ARDA.
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Identifying Patterns in Data
In this college-level learning module from the ARDA, students will identify patterns in data from various years of the General Social Survey. The module helps students analyze data on variables such as age, religion, and sex.
Download the free module below.
The Slow Grind of Change: What the 2024 GSS Tells Us About American Religion
The newest #AheadOfTheTrend examines the changes in the religious composition of the General Social Survey before the pandemic and then in the 2024 data.
Read the analysis and explore the 2024 GSS data for free!
Read the full analysis for free at www.thearda.com/categories/a....
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Each issue of #AheadOfTheTrend includes data visualizations to engage with survey responses, demographic information, measures of religiosity, and more.
View the latest visualizations for "How Religion Shapes the Fear of Death" and read the full analysis on the ARDA's website (link in comments).
Many of the ARDA's learning modules have been updated to include the latest data from the 2024 General Social Survey. These modules are designed to be incorporated into class syllabi or used for individual skill development.
Explore and download the modules at www.thearda.com/teaching/col....
#AheadOfTheTrend: Fire Insurance for the Afterlife? How Religion Shapes the Fear of Death
The Chapman University Survey of American Fears repeatedly asks: How afraid are you of dying? One thing that immediately jumps out is that a significant portion of Americans don’t fear death at all.
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The ARDA is at @aarweb.bsky.social! Come visit our team at Booth 708 to learn about free research and teaching resources utilizing the best religion data. #aarsbl25
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Fire Insurance for the Afterlife? How Religion Shapes the Fear of Death
Have modern Americans come to grips with the idea that they’re going to die someday? In the latest #AheadOfTheTrend, @ryanburge.bsky.social looks at responses to the question, "How afraid are you of dying?"
When using the 2024 General Social Survey data, the syntax files on the ARDA offer alternative methods for classifying religious groups into a few religious traditions. There are additional syntax and documentation files that offer guidance for harmonizing religion and demographic survey measures.
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