3Qs: Losing our religion?

Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 05:00 in Psychology & Sociology

The Pew Research Center Amer­ican Values Survey, which polled more than 3,000 adults nation­wide, found that approx­i­mately one in five Amer­i­cans don’t have a reli­gious affil­i­a­tion — the most ever doc­u­mented. The survey, which was con­ducted in April and then released in June, also found that some 32 per­cent of Mil­len­nials have doubted the exis­tence of God — double the number of those who felt the same way just five years ago. Northeastern University news office asked Susan Setta, an asso­ciate pro­fessor of reli­gious studies in the Col­lege of Social Sci­ences and Human­i­ties, to explain the pre­cip­i­tous rise of unbe­lief among the young.

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