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Articles

To understand Latter-day Saint views on immigration, look at all the data

Nov 15, 2024 | deseret.com | Stephen Cranney |Jacob Hess

One stand-out polling lesson from the 2024 election was the danger of over-relying on single surveys, especially when specific findings (Harris ahead in Iowa) depart from generally accepted reality. On sensitive matters, it's become far too tempting for pundits to seize on an outlier result as evidence for something definitive, while laying aside other details or other data. This is happening with faith journalism too.
An Empirical Categorization of Elite Political Discou" by Stephen Cranney and Dr. Kirk Hawkins

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Stephen Cranney |Kirk Hawkins |Brigham Young

Keywordspopulism, elite political discourse, nationalism, militant patriotism, pragmatismCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesDepartmentPolitical ScienceAbstractThe project Dr. Hawkins, Mayavel Amado, and I completed with the assistance of the ORCA funds provided was an extension of a previous project that we presented at the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting in 2010.
Data and the Traditional Latin Mass

Jul 16, 2024 | whatweneednow.substack.com | Stephen Cranney |Stephen Bullivant

Recently rumors have been flying that Pope Francis is preparing to impose stringent restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. Of course, unfounded rumors out of the Vatican are not new, and some journalists have not been able to identify anybody who has actually seen the document in question.
Faith: In pursuit of happiness – Deseret News

May 5, 2024 | deseret.com | Stephen Cranney

The data show that the religious are happier. The question is why
Are religious people happier? Here's what the science says – Deseret News

Mar 23, 2024 | deseret.com | Stephen Cranney

According to many studies over the years, and my new data analysis, religious people are, statistically speaking, measurably more likely to be happy.
Applying Moral Foundations Theory to current and former Latter-day Saints

Feb 16, 2024 | deseret.com | Josh Coates |Stephen Cranney

In our previous article, we explored different segments among Latter-day Saints based on the 2023 Current and Former Latter-day Saint survey, a large representative study of over 3,800 current and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These came from national Facebook ads and postcards sent to a representative distribution of households within counties that had populations that were at least 15% Latter-day Saint based on the 2020 U.S. Religious Census estimates.
New survey shows strong cross-generational faith among Latter-day Saints

Feb 9, 2024 | deseret.com | Josh Coates |Stephen Cranney

Editor's note: The following is the second article exploring findings from the 2023 Current and Former Latter-day Saint Survey. The survey was conducted by the B.H. Roberts Foundation, an independent organization not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Are there any meaningful patterns in how Latter-day Saints respond to questions about their beliefs and practices?
We sent out 80,000 postcards to Latter-day Saints in the U.S. Here's what we learned

Jan 31, 2024 | deseret.com | Stephen Cranney |Josh Coates

The 21st century is in many ways already unrecognizable to the 20th century - especially in terms of marked evolutions in religious beliefs and practices in America. Understanding how and why these changes are taking place is often at the mercy of the headlines we see, the media we consume and our intuition. Helpful data can also help us make sense of what is taking place.