What is the State of American Religion in 2024?

It’s only January, but 2024 promises to be an eventful year. For the first newsletter of the year, I want to try something new. I’ve enjoyed sharing new research and data on this newsletter, but there’s more I want to do in this space. There are many other voices I would like to include, people with distinctive perspectives and research backgrounds who are working to expand our understanding of the world. To that end, I’m launching a new feature, American Storylines Voices, a semi-regular Q&A that will feature notable journalists and scholars writing about American politics, culture, and religion. Today I’m excited to share a conversation with Sociologist Claude Fischer, whose work has had a tremendous impact on my own research interests and career. Claude S. Fischer is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School in Sociology at the University of California Berkeley. Over five decades, Fischer has written more than I can summarize here spanning a diverse array of topics in social

It’s only January, but 2024 promises to be an eventful year. For the first newsletter of the year, I want to try something new. I’ve enjoyed sharing new research and data on this newsletter, but there’s more I want to do in this space. There are many other voices I would like to include, people with distinctive perspectives and research backgrounds who are working to expand our understanding of the world. To that end, I’m launching a new feature, American Storylines Voices, a semi-regular Q&A that will feature notable journalists and scholars writing about American politics, culture, and relig