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Conrad Hackett
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Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
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NEW: White evangelical support for Trump
69% approve his job performance
58% support all of most of his policies
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
White evangelicals remain among Trump’s strongest supporters, but they're less supportive than a year ago
There has been an 8-percentage point drop since early 2025 in the share of White evangelicals who support all or most of Trump’s plans and policies.
www.pewresearch.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Extremely or very confident Donald Trump acts ethically in office
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
Compared with a year ago, White Protestants and religiously unaffiliated adults now have significantly less confidence that Trump acts ethically in office. For example, 26% of White nonevangelical Protestants are extremely or very confident Trump acts ethically in office, down from 38%. And the share of religious “nones” who have a lot of confidence in Trump’s ethics now stands at 10%, down from 16%. Confidence in Trump’s ethics has remained low among Black Protestants.
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
Extremely or very confident Donald Trump acts ethically in office
White evangelicals 40%
US adult avg. 21%
Unaffiliated 10%
Black Protestants 7%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
Compared with a year ago, White Protestants and religiously unaffiliated adults now have significantly less confidence that Trump acts ethically in office. For example, 26% of White nonevangelical Protestants are extremely or very confident Trump acts ethically in office, down from 38%. And the share of religious “nones” who have a lot of confidence in Trump’s ethics now stands at 10%, down from 16%. Confidence in Trump’s ethics has remained low among Black Protestants.
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
NEW: White evangelical support for Trump
69% approve his job performance
58% support all of most of his policies
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/09/white-evangelicals-remain-among-trumps-strongest-supporters-but-theyre-less-supportive-than-a-year-ago/
White evangelicals remain among Trump’s strongest supporters, but they're less supportive than a year ago
There has been an 8-percentage point drop since early 2025 in the share of White evangelicals who support all or most of Trump’s plans and policies.
www.pewresearch.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
In an effort to boost childbearing, France is sending a letter to 29-year-olds reminding them about the biological clock.
France's social security system pays the cost of freezing and conserving eggs for women ages 29 to 37.
https://archive.ph/rkNs0#selection-1705.39-1705.138
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February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
The overall trend in the Church of England is not revival.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/08/church-losing-its-most-dedicated-followers/
The number of card-carrying members has fallen by almost 20 per cent in the last five years, according to figures released before the General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative meeting in London this week. The Church is struggling to appeal to younger generations in an increasingly secular society, with Synod members warning of a “serious decline”. Chart shows widespread membership declines in the Church of England
February 9, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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kai-arzheimer.com
2025 #ThrowBackPaper (open access): In (Western) Europe, #Islamophobia is closely linked to #farright attitudes. But both are unrelated to religiosity 📄🔁📊
Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but highly correlated with far right attitudes - Kai Arzheimer, 2025
The far right’s relationship with religion has become a major focus of current research. Even in Western Europe, one of the most rapidly secularising areas of t...
journals.sagepub.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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davepiperdj.bsky.social
Is the @biblesociety.bsky.social / @yougov.co.uk's "Quiet Revival" REAL GROWTH - or all a fuss about nowt? Opinion from @pewresearch.org's @conradhackett.bsky.social, for Premier Christianity Magazine:

www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/why-... @samhailes.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 AM
conradhackett.bsky.social
Will the 2028 American Sociological Association conference be entirely online, as recommended in 2023 (www.asanet.org/amrc-report-...)?

The "future annual meetings" section of the website seems noncommittal. The 2028 location is listed as "TBA" rather than virtual.
@asanews.bsky.social
The ASA's website says the location of the 2028 conference is "TBA."
February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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dingemanwiertz.bsky.social
New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in.

More info 👇
kasimirdederichs.bsky.social Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social · Sep 15
New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
MY NEW OP-ED: Why I doubt surveys suggesting a quiet revival among young adults in Britain www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/why-...
We may be seeing anecdotal evidence of some growing, lively churches, says Dr Conrad Hackett. But that doesn’t mean the data shows an increase in church attendance or people identifying as Christian. As a demographer, he explains why the survey methodology is as important as its findings It’s my job to assess religion data. And in my expert judgement, the survey evidence for a Christian resurgence among young adults in Britain is weak. As a demographer of religion at Pew Research Center, I analyse census and survey data from around the world to understand how religious landscapes are changing. Between 2010 and 2020, the United Kingdom saw a 13 percentage point drop in the Christian share of its population (from 62% to 49%). Other countries experiencing such large drops included Australia, Canada and the United States. In such places, younger generations typically are less religious than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. This pattern is often how religion declines around the world. However, reports have appeared in the British media about surveys that find surprisingly high levels of religious commitment among young adults. For example, in 2021, the BBC reported on a Savanta poll that found monthly worship attendance among 18 to 34-year olds was three times the rate among people over 55. This poll was commissioned by the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer. Last year, Bible Society described a “The Quiet Revival” in which “Gen Z leads an exciting turnaround in church attendance.” This claim was based on a YouGov survey commissioned by Bible Society in 2024. It found that the share of churchgoing Christians in England and Wales was higher among 18-to-24-year-olds than among adults as a whole. And, according to a Savanta poll commissioned by Tearfund, most British adults under 45 planned to attend church last Christmas, while a majority of older adults did not. It is important to understand that none of these surveys recruited respondents at random from the general population. Instead, they canvassed members of opt-in panels who signed up to take the surveys. These respondents were recruited through methods such as online advertising, self-enrolment and email lists. It is important to understand that none of these surveys recruited respondents at random from the general population. Instead, they canvassed members of opt-in panels who signed up to take the surveys. These respondents were recruited through methods such as online advertising, self-enrolment and email lists. My colleagues at Pew Research Center have previously demonstrated that opt-in surveys may be biased by “bogus respondents” who, instead of answering questions honestly, answer with the minimal effort required to complete surveys quickly and receive monetary rewards. Bogus respondents are often a large share of those who claim to be young adults in opt-in surveys. Therefore, the results for young adults may be especially dubious. Opt-in polls have generated surprising headlines about young adults - and not just in the religious realm. For example, a recent story in Fortune magazine announced an opt-in survey found that 77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview. If opt-in polls may lead us astray, what kind of polls should we trust? The gold standard in social science research is surveys that use random samples of the population. In such surveys, you can participate only if the researchers randomly select you. You can’t volunteer (opt in). You have to be chosen randomly on the basis of your telephone number or home address. Surveys based on random samples show that Christian identity and practice are not increasing among young adults in Britain. For example, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) measures religious self-identification among more than 50,000 individuals in a typical quarter across more than 20,000 randomly sampled UK households. In summer 2025, the LFS showed that 44% of adults in Britain identified as Christian, down from 54% in early 2018. Moreover, Christian identification is declining across age groups. In the LFS, 28% of 18-to-34-year-olds identified as Christian in summer 2025, down from 37% in early 2018. Throughout this period, older British adults consistently identified as Christian at higher levels than young adults. Of course, many self-identified Christians are not regular churchgoers. Since the LFS doesn’t measure worship attendance, we can turn to another long-standing survey that uses random population samples to see how the churchgoing Christian share of the adult population has changed. The annual British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey measures religious identity and worship attendance in Britain, based on a random sample of more than 3,000 adults. BSA data shows no clear evidence of a Christian revival. Among all adult respondents, the share who identify as Christians and who go to church at least once a month was 12% in 2018 and 9% in 2024. Similarly, the share of young adults who are Christian churchgoers has not risen above pre-pandemic levels, according to the BSA survey. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, 6% were in this category in 2024, compared to 8% in 2018.
February 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
conradhackett.bsky.social
How does James Bond like his religion?
teemutaira.bsky.social Teemu Taira @teemutaira.bsky.social · 27d
I haven't contributed to this, but I will write a promotional endorsement. This should be out later this year.
February 7, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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teemutaira.bsky.social
The debate on "Christian revival" continues. This piece by Conrad Hackett www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading
Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.
www.pewresearch.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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joelthiessen.bsky.social
My article, "Planting Seeds: The #Catholic #Parish in the #Religious Transmission Ecosystem" is now available. Stay tuned later this week for the release of another new article that I've co-authored! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Planting Seeds: The Catholic Parish in the Religious Transmission Ecosystem - Joel Thiessen, 2025
Along with parents and schools, congregations are part of a “religious transmission ecosystem” with children. Using case study data with a Catholic parish in Ca...
journals.sagepub.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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amyadamczyk.bsky.social
I’m grateful to contribute a public-facing article to ASA's Contexts Magazine on how national contexts shape attitudes about abortion.

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@scholars.org @johnjaycjphd.bsky.social
#PublicSociology #ComparativeResearch #ReproductivePolitics #ASA
How Country Context Shapes Personal Opinions About Abortion - Amy Adamczyk, 2025
Amy Adamczyk on variation in global abortion attitudes.
journals.sagepub.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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jimiadams.bsky.social
Does anyone have a "writing log" approach that you like and could share? I'm thinking of a "Strava for writing" (if that parallel makes sense to you) though I don't need it to be "social" in any meaningful sense of the term. Not sure this is something I want/need, but thought I'd give it a whirl.
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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valecantori.bsky.social
Since we have finally moved to a new home, it is a good time to remind everyone about my latest publication discussing how American Muslim advocates attempt to reverse the tarnished narratives on Islam and Muslims in U.S. civic life. Link in the first comment.
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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jonathancoley.bsky.social
I'm happy to share that my and Jessica Schachle-Gordon's new special issue of Work and Occupations titled "Working for Social Change" is now out in the world!

The special issue examines the concept of "occupational activism" from several theoretical angles.

Check it out now at bit.ly/4svPSk1
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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zmunson.bsky.social
This resonates with me & my experience in the classroom. I stopped allowing electronics in classes just 2yrs ago & found it is transformative. And even reticent students recognize the transformation. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social
Thanks to @greatergoodedu.bsky.social for naming Who Pays for Diversity?among their favorite books of the year! #booksky

Excited to check out all the books on the list. We need work that “fosters a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.”

www.ucpress.edu/books/who-pa...
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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tiaphd.bsky.social
Happy Black History Month! I wrote y'all a book! It's available from @undpress.bsky.social or your favorite retailer!
February 2, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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annetaylor.bsky.social
Looking for alternatives to Mills for my Intro class, and am going to try a short essay from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass called "The Gift of Strawberries." In talking about the gift economy vs. property economy, she sketches the two-way relationship between humans and society!
January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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sssreligion.bsky.social
Read sociologist @brvnathan.bsky.social's latest piece on disenchantment/enchantment, modern science, and domination, extraction, and fragmentation (DEF). "Rather than depleting the sense of mystery and magic, science heightens it, deepens it," he says.

www.beautyatwork.net/p/beyond-the...
Beyond the DEF logic
What scientists can teach us about spiritual intelligence
www.beautyatwork.net
July 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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elenavanstee.bsky.social
New in @contexts.org! Doug Massey weighs in on the geographic distribution of (dis)advantage ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
contexts.org Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Oct 23
One thing Doug Massey knows? Social inequality is firmly grounded in geographic inequality. 📍

Check out his new essay for @contexts.org ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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dawsonvosburg.bsky.social
I spent a probably dumb amount of time today writing out my dreams for a better qualitative data analysis application than the presently available options. I use MaxQDA and while there’s stuff that’s helpful it’s also just massively clunky and takes longer to code data with than my manual methods.
January 20, 2026 at 10:10 PM