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    Methodology

    This study takes a close look at the public spaces (public pages and groups) on Facebook in which coronavirus-related posts with links in March 2020 received a high level of interactions. During this time, the United States went from having two known deaths from the virus on March 1 to a stay-at-home order in most […]

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    4. Family religious practices

    Children’s religious practices are tied to their families’ traditions.[28. numoffset=”28″ See Petts, Richard. 2009. “Trajectories of Religious Participation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Also see Smith, Christian, and Melinda Lundquist Denton. 2005. “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.”] To better understand these links, the survey […]

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    3. Teens’ religious practices

    The new survey finds that although the majority of teens pray and attend worship services at least occasionally, about four-in-ten say they seldom or never attend services, and a similar proportion report seldom or never praying. The survey also allows for comparisons between teens and their parents who took the survey before them, finding that […]

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    1. Posts about COVID-19 appeared in a wide range of public Facebook spaces

    As Americans grew more aware of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus, social media became a key avenue for following related developments. This study, which examined 3,000 public Facebook spaces with the most popular COVID-19 posts in March 2020, aimed to bring to light the types of spaces where these conversations took place. (The […]