Possibly the most oft-repeated statistic in American religion is the rise of the religiously unaffiliated from just 5% of the population in the early 1970s to about 30% of adults in 2022, writes university professor Ryan Burge.
Demise of the Soviet Union, backlash against the religious right, the rise of political polarization and the internet all may have played a role.
Using data from the General Social Survey, which has been fielded consistently from 1972 through 2021, and restricting the sample to adults between ages 18 and 35, a single decade comes into sharp focus: the 1990s. It’s a moment when young Americans seemed to lose religion virtually overnight. What caused this change to occur at this specific point in American history? It’s hard to pinpoint just one thing, but there are possible culprits.On Christmas Day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union and Boris Yeltsin took power over Russia.
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