Aaron Griffith (he/him) is an assistant professor of modern American history at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash.
Griffith is the author of God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America (Harvard University Press, 2020). He has published academic articles in Religions and Fides et Historia, and written for popular publications such as The Washington Post, Religion & Politics, Christianity Today, and Religion News Service. After earning his M.Div. and Th.D. at Duke Divinity School, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
![In an op-ed for @thehill, PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman, Ph.D., examines the narrative that Gen Z men are experiencing a “religious resurgence” — and why that may not hold up to the data.
Drawing on findings from the latest PRRI Census of American Religion, Deckman finds no evidence that Gen Z men are becoming more religious. In 2013, 32% of Americans aged 18 to 29 identified as religiously unaffiliated, which rose to 38% last year — an increase driven mainly by young women’s departure from religion. In 2013, just 29% of young women were religious “nones,” yet by 2024, it was 40%.
“If they [young men] are increasingly drawn to traditionalist churches, it could create yet another space where young women and men no longer spend time together, further widening what appears to be a growing gender divide across multiple fronts in society and politics.”
📖 Read more at thehill.com and explore the data at PRRI.org.](https://prri.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
