Snitz mansplains whats the story with religion lately.
It may be stable but kids aren't really practicing religion like before 2020. I blame drugs, sex and rock music.
Hey wait a minute! Kids are drinking less, use fewer drugs and listen to Taylor Swift. I've just put my finger on the problem!
Religion Remains Stable in the U.S., With Mixed Signals for Young Adults
A closer look at recent religious trends in the United States
By Gregory A. Smith, Chip Rotolo and Alan Cooperman, Pew Research
After a prolonged decline, religion in the United States has shown signs of strength and stability in recent years.
Since 2020, steady percentages of U.S. adults have said they identify with a religion, pray daily, consider religion to be very important in their lives and attend religious services at least monthly, according to the newest Pew Research Center surveys.
And the percentage of Americans who say they went to religious services in the last month continues to climb following a pandemic-era low point.
In a June 2026 survey, 34% of U.S. adults say “yes” when asked whether they went to religious services in person during the last month, and a total of 45% say they either attended religious services in person or watched them online or on TV in the last month. Both numbers are at their highest levels since the Center started asking these questions in July 2020, during the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak.1
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These new findings come amid media reports suggesting that a religious resurgence might be underway among young U.S. adults, especially young conservative men.
The Center’s latest surveys contain mixed signals about what is happening among young adults.
On the one hand, as the very youngest adults (born from 2004 to 2008, now roughly ages 18 to 22) come of age, they are reporting relatively high rates of attendance at religious services. Overall, 41% say they go to services at a church, synagogue, mosque or other house of worship at least once or twice a month, which is higher than in the U.S. public as a whole (33%).
On the other hand, young adults who are only slightly older (born from 2000 to 2003, now roughly 23 to 26) are the least religious age group when it comes to how often they pray, how important religion is in their lives and how many of them identify with a religion. And the share who say they attend religious services at least monthly (27%) is among the lowest of any age group.
The youngest adults (ages 18 to 22) are no more religious today than young adults in this age range were in 2014. And young adults between 23 and 26 today are less religious than people in this age range were in 2014. People in both of these young age categories are significantly less religious than young adults of the same ages were in 2007, roughly two decades ago.2
In addition, there is no clear evidence in Pew Research Center surveys that any birth cohort of Americans that can be tracked over time has become more religious in recent years. Since our recent surveys include only people 18 and older, we don’t know how religious the 2004-08 birth cohort was a few years ago, when its members were still minors. But all the preceding birth cohorts have been fairly stable over the last six years.
When it comes to religion and politics among young adults, the youngest Republicans report attending religious services more often than the youngest Democrats, which is not unusual.3
Additionally, the youngest Republicans attend religious services at fairly high rates compared with older Republicans. But they are not solely responsible for the high levels of religious attendance among the youngest adults. The youngest Democrats also attend services at relatively high rates compared with Democrats in some older age groups.
In the Center’s recent surveys, the youngest men report attending religious services more often than the youngest women. This is something we have not seen before in our surveys. In the past, American women have tended to be more religious than American men.
Yet the youngest women also say they go to services at relatively high rates, compared with women in the immediately preceding age groups.
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