Megan Basham

So the researchers who are looking at this basically say that we could be seeing several cultural forces that are converging.

One explanation involves the growing political divide between young men and young women, which is becoming increasingly stark.

Surveys show that young women have been moving sharply toward progressive politics in recent years, while young men are drifting somewhat slower, but definitely rightward.

And religion in the United States still tends to correlate with conservative cultural views.

Political scientist Ryan Burge, who studies these kinds of religious trends, he notes that younger Catholics, particularly men, are significantly more likely to identify as conservative than older generations.

As older liberal priests retire,

the younger generation replacing them tends to be much more conservative theologically, and that usually means they will also be more conservative politically.

Yeah, there has been some major debate about that, and I think it is probably still best not to overstate what we're seeing, because even those researchers who are very clear that they do see this shift, they also say that it's not enough to call it a major resurgence.

And for one reason, the broader picture still shows that young Americans right now are the least religious generation in modern history.

And there are very large shares that still identify as religiously unaffiliated.

And then you also have some analysts arguing that the new gender gap may be partly caused by declining religiosity among women.

So they're trying to separate out what is women becoming less religious and men becoming more religious.

Still, those Gallup numbers are real, and they show that something noteworthy is happening among young men specifically.

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