Young People Recommend Books for their Spiritual Growth

We’re just a couple months away from our release of The State of Religion & Young People 2023 report, which is focused on how young people experience the sacred. Our data show that young people’s religious and spiritual experience is both complex and uniquely tailored, especially when it comes to what

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What Is Relational Authority? 

For our first State of Religion and Young People report in 2020, we surveyed thousands of young people and interviewed dozens more on how they form their religious and spiritual beliefs and identities and how they undertake practices. As we looked at what the data revealed about young people’s inner

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Introducing Hannah Evans: Her Research Story

Springtide Research Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Hannah Evans to our team. She is a sociologist who specializes in how racial and cultural socialization shape religiosity in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Below, she shares her personal story of how she came to this particular focus and what it means

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The Power of Faith

Springtide Research Institute was recently featured by WBZ News Radio in a radio segment featuring a member of our Research Advisory Board, Rabbi Elan Babchuck. You can find a transcript of a segment from their conversation below.  I sit on the Research Advisory Board for Springtide Research Institute which is an organization that does research around Gen Z, mental health

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Introducing Jaclyn Doherty: Her Research Story

Springtide Research Institute is pleased to welcome Jaclyn Doherty to our team. Jaclyn is a PhD candidate in Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where her academic research centers around religious/spiritual identity in social spaces. Below, she shares her own research experiences and what it means for her work at

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