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The Next America. Paul Taylor. (Public Affairs, 2014)
The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past. America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Drawing on Pew Research Center’s extensive archive of public opinion surveys and demographic data, The Next America is a rich portrait of where we are as a nation and where we’re headed—toward a future marked by the most striking social, racial, and economic shifts the country has seen in a century. |
Teens, Social Media & Technology 2015
Pew Research Center Americas Internet Access 2000-2015
Pew Research Center Social Media Update 2014
Pew Research Center The Web at 25 in the U.S.
Pew Research Center |
America's Changing Religious Landscape
Pew Research Center 2015 |
American Religion: Contemporary Trends. Mark Chavez (Princeton University Press, 2011)
American Religion presents the best and most up-to-date information about religious trends in the United States, in a succinct and accessible manner. This sourcebook provides essential information about key developments in American religion since 1972. Mark Chaves looks at trends in diversity, belief, involvement, congregational life, leadership, liberal Protestant decline, and polarization. Chaves finds that American religious life has seen much continuity in recent decades, but also much change. Changing American Congregations
Mark Chaves, 2015 |
Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down Across Generations. Vern L. Bengston with Norella M. Putney and Susan Harris (Oxford, 2013)
How does religion get passed down from one generation to the next? How do some families succeed in passing on their faith while others do not? Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations seeks to answer these questions and many more. For almost four decades, Vern Bengtson and his colleagues have been conducting the largest-ever study of religion and family across generations - to find out how religion is, or is not, passed down from one generation to the next. Families and Faith offers a fascinating exploration of what allows a family to pass on its most deeply-held tradition - its faith. |
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