Ryan Burge

5 days ago | graphsaboutreligion.com | Ryan Burge

I’ve written about this before, but it’s worth repeating here - whenever I tweet a graph that contains a couple of the largest religious groups (evangelicals, Catholics, non-religious), the first question that comes in the comments is inevitably - where are the Latter-day Saints? I can be hyperbolic at times, but I am not exaggerating this at all. It’s this weird little sociological thing that only I can see because I’m one of the few who’s analyzed data on smaller religious groups.

1 week ago | religionunplugged.com | Ryan Burge

(ANALYSIS) So far, I’ve taken a really good look at how three Christian groups voted in the 2024 election: evangelicals, mainline Protestants and Catholics. But there’s another group that I haven’t examined yet: Black Protestants. Whenever I post a graph that contains a category for Black Protestants, I always get a comment or two asking why they are their own group. Let me briefly answer that before diving into the data.

1 week ago | graphsaboutreligion.com | Ryan Burge

Ah, it’s springtime again. My favorite time of year. The days get longer, the grass actually becomes green again, and the school year is coming to a close. That may be my favorite part, by the way. I do enjoy teaching very much, but it’s nice to have a break for about 3 months. I usually spend my summers writing a new book. That will be the case this year, too.

1 week ago | religionunplugged.com | Ryan Burge

(ANALYSIS) If there’s anything I know will get a lot of engagement on social media, it’s the simple relationship between education and religious attendance. I think that the assumption that most people have is that educated people tend to be less religious, which is a viewpoint that I have thought about a lot over the last couple of years. I’m really fascinated by where that whole understanding came from. I think it may be the ghost of Karl Marx haunting us.

1 week ago | graphsaboutreligion.com | Ryan Burge

So far, I’ve taken a really good look at how three Christian groups voted in the 2024 election - evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics. But there’s another group that I haven’t examined yet - Black Protestants. Whenever I post a graph that contains a category for Black Protestants I always get a comment or two asking why they are their own group. Let me briefly answer that before diving into the data.