Maybe Religion Isn’t Dying, But It’s Definitely Not Well

Ryan Cragun ✒ A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed denies the stark reality of religion’s decline in the USIn their recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Byron R. Johnson and Jeff Levin, referring to a paper they recently published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion (IJRR), argue that religiosity is not declining in the US but rather, “Americans are becoming more religious, and