What Gen Z Really Believes: New Data Unpacks the Faith and Habits of a Shifting Generation

One of the most consequential surveys of American religion has recently released its latest raw data from 2024. The General Social Survey (GSS) is considered the gold standard among academics who study long-term trends in the United States. It includes robust sets of questions on a wide range of topics, including religion. This initial release doesn’t include all the variables I want to analyze (specifically, religious affiliation). Still, there’s more than enough here to give us a good sense of where we stand on other measures of religiosity.

Let’s start with how belief in God has changed over the last 36 years. Beginning in 1988, the GSS asked respondents to “choose which statement comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.” They are then given six possible options:

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