Bradley Wright's Blog

Here are more data from the Uecker study that I posted on yesterday. Again the outcome is whether adolescents leave religion during a 7-year...

Uecker , Regnerus , and Vaaler just published a very interesting study examining the social sources of young people in the U.S. losing their...

When Cathy and I were back in Madison, it was nice to visit some of the sites of our early years together, including this store where we d...

Here's some more data from Regnerus and Uecker's 2006 study (see yesterday's post for citation & description). This chart ad...

Here are some interesting data from an article by Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker (2006--Review of Religious Research 47(3): 217-237). Using...

True story: I went to get my eye glasses fixed last Tuesday, and the doctor was out and the receptionist couldn't help me because... she...

Here's a list of the 20 least religious countries ( article ) in the world. This is from an encyclopedia chapter summarizing survey data...

I came across this photo the other day, and I've been chuckling about it since. How do you think it should be captioned? Here's mine...

Here's a fun list , put out annually by Beloit College, of the worldview of incoming freshman. The first one: "what's the Berl...

One of the things that I appreciate most about blogging is the chance to be wrong... Say I forget to mention a relevant body of research lit...

My sister, Susie, who is in Milan for a week with her husband Paolo, has spent the time hanging out with Supreme Court Justices, ambassadors...

One of my favorite theories in sociology is role theory because it explains so much of what we do and don’t do in everyday life. It even exp...

My brother-in-law, Paolo Carozza , is giving a talk today along with... Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Expected audience: several thous...

Somewhere along the line, Christianity got a bad rap as being boring, tedious, or otherwise unpleasant. Sort of a "should" thing. ...

Yesterday, amidst driving 15+ hours back from South Bend, I had a chance to reflect on a lot of things, including: * Our friends & famil...

After a 2.5 week trip to the Midwest to do the family thing, I'm back in Storrs . Nothing like a 15.5 hour drive the day before to focu...

I don't know exactly why Brad came up with the idea of starting a blog. He has lots of ideas, some of them good, some of them ..... les...

The previous post looked at the relationship between religion and what people say is important to them. This will look at the relationship ...

Brad has had a number of posts about the relationship to religion to various kinds of behavior (or at least reports of behavior). Here I...

As I said in my last post, a little calculation suggests that the effect of ethnic diversity on social capital isn't all that big. Why...