Nonreligious Millennials: Becoming the Default in U.S. and Canadian Societies

Dr. Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme studies social differences between individuals who are religious and those who are not, and how these dynamics are evolving in contemporary Western societies.

0:40 Introduction
4:45 [Non]Belief in God Trends in the U.S. and Canada
5:34 Charts explaining estimates rates of belief in god or a higher power
10:30 Nonreligious Millennials - A profile
17:46 Religious Millennial
20:34 Spiritual Seeker Millennial
24:35 Cultural Believer Millennial
27:10 Nonreligious Millennial
39:30 Ideas about what's driving the rise of nonreligion
42:20 Some socio-political differences between the religious and nonreligious
46:47 Nonreligion becoming the default among millennials
54:00 Key takeaways
56:45 Q&A

Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She completed her DPhil (PhD equivalent) in sociology at the University of Oxford in 2015. Her research interests include quantitative methods, sociology of religion, secularisation, immigration and ethnicity, and political sociology. Dr. Wilkins-Laflamme is currently involved in a number of funded research projects, including 1) Religion, spirituality and secularity among Millennials in the U.S. and Canada; and 2) Nonreligion in a Complex Future. Material for her talk today is taken from two of her books: 1) The first published in 2020 with New York University Press, co-authored with colleague Joel Thiessen, and titled ‘None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the U.S. and Canada; 2) and the second forthcoming with Routledge titled ‘Religion, Spirituality and Secularity among Millennials: The Generation Shaping American and Canadian Trends.’

Find her books at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sarah+wilkins-laflamme&i=stripbooks&crid=2SV77VSUOS21O&sprefix=sarah+wilkins-laflamme%2Cstripbooks%2C74&ref=nb_sb_noss

Find about more about her and her research at https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/people-profiles/sarah-wilkins-laflamme

Visit the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network at https://thensrn.org/

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