Mormon Church in Decline in Utah and Worldwide? w/ Dr. Ryan Cragun | Ep. 1847

Is the Mormon Church in decline in its home state: Utah? Is the Mormon church over-reporting its Utah membership? Is the Mormon church in decline worldwide?

Join us as we interview sociologist Dr. Ryan Cragan we we discuss his new article: "Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion."

https://www.ryantcragun.com/mormons-a...

Episode Show Notes: https://www.mormonstories.org/portfol...

00:04:00 How the article’s research came to be
00:07:15 The church’s numbers on their website
00:08:55 Mormon News October 13-17
00:13:10 Video clip - Elder Holland on the growth of the church
00:17:00 Bill Reels post on Reddit
00:19:19 Baseball baptisms
00:26:17 Statistics in attendance for the Church
00:28:48 Chart showing percent drop LDS in Salt Lake City
00:33:46 Data on membership numbers
00:35:44 Mexico’s actual numbers vs Church reporting
00:41:00 Cragun’s article
00:44:00 How the study was conducted
00:47:00 Building in a “confidence interval”
00:54:14 The big discrepancy, 18% points, how do we explain this?
00:55:15 Migration of people to Utah
00:57:28 Chart from the article
01:00:30 Secularization, people aren’t interested in religion
01:04:55 Mormons are having less children
01:10:57 “Religion doesn’t make people good and neither does non-religion”
01:17:43 John tried to buy an LDS church building
01:20:56 Kids are safer at school than at their own homes
01:24:27 How the NFL competes with churches
01:25:50 The NFL is contributing to the religious decline
01:32:50 They changed the ages of missionaries to prevent them from leaving the church
01:34:50 Impacts of COVID on religion
01:39:00 The church cannot afford to rapidly modernize
01:43:35 Closing remarks

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