Ryan Burge - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Ryan Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going as well as 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America. He has published over two dozen peer-reviewed articles in a variety of outlets in the social sciences. In addition, he has written editorials for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His work has appeared in a variety of additional outlets including the Washington Post, NPR, NBC News, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Vox, C-SPAN, Christianity Today, and Religion News Service. He is the cofounder and frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a forum for scholars of religion and politics to make their work accessible to a more general audience.

Content

Total articles 458

• Belief in an Afterlife is Increasing in the United States

  By Ryan Burge| Graphs about Religion@ This post has been unlocked through a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment for the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). The graphs you see here use data that is publicly available for download and analysis through link(s) provided in the text below. Long time readers of this newsletter know I write about the three B’s of religion fairly often.

  By Ryan Burge · Graphs about Religion

  Apr. 17, 2025

• High School Students Are Growing Incredibly Antisocial

  By Ryan Burge| Religion Unplugged Verified (ANALYSIS) I’ve got two sons — one is 13, and the other is 10. I remember when my wife and I were thinking about having children, we talked all the time about the best type of birthing plan (I distinctly remember becoming intimately aware of something called the ). Then it was breastfeeding versus bottle feeding and cloth diapers versus disposable diapers. It felt like it was consuming most of our conversations for a period of time.

  By Ryan Burge · Religion Unplugged

  Apr. 16, 2025

• High School Students Are Growing Incredibly Anti-Social

  By Ryan Burge| Graphs about Religion@ I’ve got two sons - one is thirteen and the other is ten. I remember when my wife and I were thinking about having children, we talked all the time about the best type of birthing plan (I distinctly remember becoming intimately aware of something called the ). Then it was breastfeeding versus bottle feeding and cloth diapers versus disposable diapers. It felt like it was consuming most of our conversations for a period of time.

  By Ryan Burge · Graphs about Religion

  Apr. 14, 2025

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