Penny Edgell

Professor of Sociology

University of Minnesota

at time of fellowship

2023 to 2024

Visiting Scholar

Academic Discipline:

Sociology

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Edgell will explore the decline of religious commitment and the increase in nonreligion and spirituality since 1990. She will analyze data from the American Mosaic Project, Beyond Christian Nationalism survey, and Nonreligious Engagement and Well-being survey along with secondary sources to develop a new framework for understanding the transformed landscape of religion in the United States.

I'm working on a book that focuses on changes in the American religious landscape since the 1990s. There are far fewer Americans who are involved in local religious communities, especially mainstream religious communities, and most especially white Christian ones.