A Religious Vibe Shift? Unpacking America’s Changing Spiritual Landscape

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America’s religious landscape is undergoing a massive generational shift. To help us understand where faith, spirituality, and politics are heading, our upcoming gathering on Wednesday, August 5th at 2 PM (ET) features Chip Rotolo, Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center. Chip will walk us through the latest data from Pew’s acclaimed Religious Landscape Study, offering a data-driven look at how American belief systems are changing.
What We Will Explore
    • The Two-Decade Trend: How religious identity, attendance, and practice have evolved over the last 20 years.
    • The Generational Divide: How younger generations view faith compared to their parents and grandparents.
    • Faith and Politics: The complex, evolving intersection of religious belief and public life in America.
    • Staying vs. Leaving: The specific data insights explaining why people abandon their childhood faith traditions—and what keeps others anchored.

About the Speaker
Chip Rotolo, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center, specializing in religion’s role in public life. A sociologist of religion, Chip holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, an M.Div from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill. He is also the co-author of Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America (Princeton University Press, 2020). His insights are frequently featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR.