Someone asked me recently why I stopped writing about religion, and I said there were two reasons: One is that the primary dataset I was following stopped updating; the other is that Ryan Burge is doing such a good job, I felt redundant. His most recent article presents evidence that the Nones have hit a ceiling — that is, that the percentage of people in the U.S. with no religious affiliation, which has consistently increased for several decades, has either leveled off or started to...
Have the Nones hit a ceiling?
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