Religious life in America was disrupted by the pandemic. But did it really lead to a loss of faith as well as a decline in churchgoing?
Hout and his colleagues compared past participants who agreed to retake the survey with those who did not and found that fewer “intensely religious” people retook the survey.
That’s unfortunate, he said, especially at a time when the religious landscape in the United States is changing. Overall, Hout said, surveys have become more difficult in recent years because of larger changes in American culture. In the past, he said, surveys offered ordinary people a way to comment on larger trends in the culture. Now, he said, social media allows all to speak their mind. And people are more skeptical about talking to strangers.
Being religious, he said, is still seen as a social good for many Americans. That leads to the so-called halo effect in which people overestimate how religious they are because they want to make a good impression on the surveyor.
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