REGINALD W. BIBBY

TRACKING & TRANSLATING TRENDS

 

REGINALD W BIBBY

PROJECT CANADA

PROJECT CANADA 2020

THINGS NEW

BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

PAPERS PLUS

FROM THE DATA ARCHIVES

FROM THE MEDIA ARCHIVES

 
Papers-Plus
 
2021-2023

  
"Jews and the Christian Goliath." Chapter 13 in Robert Brym and Randal F. Schnoor (eds.). The Ever-Dying People?  Canada's Jews in Comparative Perspective.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Reginald W. Bibby. "Religion." Chapter 12.  In Robert Brym (ed). New Society. Toronto: Nelson. 2021.
 
2019-2020
Reginald W. Bibby, Joel Thiessen, and Monetta Bailey. Millennials and the Gods.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Region of The American Academy of Religion, Ellensburg, WA, May, 2020.

  
 
2017-2018
Reginald Bibby Convocation Address, University of Lethbridge, May 31, 2018

Convocation address: 59.15 to 1.17.

Direct link: 

https://livestream.com/uleth/events/8198431
 

Reginald W. Bibby. Who Enhances Social Life More – the Pro Religious or No Religious? A Look at the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Region of The American Academy of Religion, Tacoma, May 2018.

Reginald W, Bibby and Rodney Stark. " Toward Unraveling the Québec Catholic Enigma: Still Catholic, Still Believers, Still Uninvolved. A View from Outside Québec." Presented at Étudier la religion au Québec: regards d’ici et d’ailleurs, Symposium de la Société québécoise pour l’étude de la religion (SQÉR) en collaboration avec le Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ). Montreal, 1er décembre, 2017.


Reginald W. Bibby. "Being Pro-Religious, Low Religious, and No Religious in Montreal: A Mirror of Canada & the World." Presented to the Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal, November 30, 2017.

Reginald W. Bibby. "Religious Polarization: Clarifying the Impact of Secularization and Desecularization in Canada and Elsewhere." Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, Toronto. May, 2017.
 
Special University of Lethbridge Presentation on Research: March 15, 2017
 
2015-2016
Reginald W.Bibby. "From Trend Tracking to Social Forecasting: Looking Back and Looking Forward at Social Life in Canada."
Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, Calgary, June, 2016.

Reginald W. Bibby and Andrew Grenville. "Life after death: The Last Information Gap - Until Now."  Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Long Beach, CA, April, 2015.

Reginald W. Bibby. "Heat in the Melting Pot and Cracks in the Mosaic: Attitudes Toward Religious Groups and Atheists in the United States and Canada." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Region of The American Academy of Religion, Moscow ID, May 2016.

Reginald W, Bibby. "Religious Polarization in Canada: A Major Empirical Update." Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Newport Beach, CA, October 2015.
 
2013-2014
"So You Think You Are Religious, or Spiritual But Not Religious: So What?" Presented at the University of Ottawa's Youth, Religion, and Identity Workshop, October 2014.
 
"Beyond the 'No Religion' Panic in the United States." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Associaiton, Portland, March, 2014.
 
"The Future of An Allusion: What Social Forecasts Tell Us About Explicit and Implicit Religion." Presented at the 36th Denton Implicit Religion Conference, Ilkley England, May, 2013.

Reginald W. Bibby. "Global Movement and the Sacred Mosaic: The Critical Role of Immigration in Shaping Religion in Canada." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Region of The American Academy of Religion, Calgary, May, 2014.
 
Reginald W. Bibby and Andrew Grenville. "What the Polls Do Show: Consistency in the Recollection of Service Attendance." Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, Victoria, June, 2013.
 
2011-2012
“Why Bother With Organized Religion?” Canadian Review of Sociology 49:1, 91-101. 2012.
Pre-publication version available here: only minor copyediting changes subsequently made.
 
"Beyond the Gods: Correlates of Atheism and Theism in Canada."  Abridged PowerPoint pdf.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, March, 2011.

Author Meets Critics: Beyond the Gods & Back. Bibby presentation at the Canadian Sociological Association Meetings, Waterloo, June 1, 2012. Critics: Joel Thiessen, David Eagle, William Stahl.
 
“Continuing the Conversation on Canada: Changing Patterns of Religious Service Attendance." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50:4, 831-839. 2011.
Pre-publication version available here: only minor copyediting changes subsequently made. Includes two very important tables that were moved to the JSSR 's electronic appendix.
 
Not Lost for A Response
In 2008, colleagues Joel Thiessen of Ambrose University College and Lorne Dawson of the University of Waterloo paid me the compliment of assessing my work in a lead article published in Studies of Religion (volume 37, pp. 389-415). Their article was recently reprinted by Lori Beaman in her reader, Religion & Canadian Society.
The editor, Francis Landry, invited me to offer a response which was published in the same issue of SIR (pp. 417-425). Readers may find both the Thiessen-Dawson critique and my response helpful. What I had to say is available here in pre-publication but virtually unaltered form.

  
 
2009-2010

"Restless Gods and Restless Youth: An Update on the Religious Situation in Canada."
Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, Ottawa, May, 2009.


"Fragmented but Not Forgotten Gods: Religion in the Lives of Young People in Quebec and the Rest of Canada." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Montreal, November, 2009.
 
2007-2008

"Nevers, Nones, and Nots: Latent Life in Unexpected
 Places." August 2007. This is a substantial revision
of an earlier paper which was drawn upon in
 Restless Gods. It features 2005 versus 2000 data

"Religion à La Carte in Quebec: A Problem of Demand,
Supply, or Both?"
Prepared for A Special Issue on Religion in Quebec (in
French) in the journal Globe, edited by Robert Mager and Martin Meunier, Volume 10/2, 2007-2008, appearing as
"La Religion à la carte au Québec: Un problème d’offre,
de demande, ou des deux?” Pp. 151-179.

"Canada's Data-less Debate About Religion: The Precarious Role of Research in Identifying Implicit and Explicit Religion." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society
for the Study of Religion, Vancouver, June 2008.

"The Catholic Situation in North America: Magnificent
Opportunity, Breath-taking Responsibility."
Presented at Saint Paul University, May, 2007.
Published in the Journal of Mission Studies XIV:69-84,
2007.
 
2005-2006
"The Untold Story of the Role of Women in the Fall and Rise
 of Religion in Canada." Presented at the annual meeting of the
 Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, April, 2005.

"Child Care Aspirations." Based on data from The Future Families Project. February 9, 2005.

"Polygamy and the Same-sex Debate." Based on data
from The Future Families Project. January 25, 2005.   

"Why Bother With Organized Religion? The Views of Insiders, Marginals, and Outsiders." Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, April, 2006.

"The Comeback of Organized Religion in Canada." 
Pre-edited version of “Who said God is dead?” Globe & Mail, March 17, 2006:A15.

Three Special Valentine's Day Releases: "On Love That Lasts", "On Love and Sex", "On Love and Marriage." Based on data from The Future Families Project. February 11, 2005.   
 
2003-2004

"New Gallup Poll Show Religious Attendance
on the Upswing." November 25, 2004.

"Ethos Versus Ethics: Canada, the U.S., and Homosexuality." Presented at the annual meeting of
the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco,
April, 2004.

"Life After Death: A Canadian Profile."
Easter, April 17, 2003. 

"The Circulation of the Saints: One Final Look at How Conservative Protestant Churches Grow." April, 2003.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific
Sociological Association, San Diego, April.  

"Religion and the Same-sex Debate." Based on data from The Future Families Project. December 10, 2004.

"Religion, Spirituality, and the Family: Still Together After All These Years." TRANSITION, Summer, 2003:6-11.

"The Canadian Religious Situation: Making Sense of the Census."
May 13, 2003. Pre-edited version of "God keep our land." Globe & Mail, May 14, 2003:A15.  

 
2001-2002

"The Resilience and Renaissance of Roman Catholicism
in Canada." July 22, 2002. Pre-edited version of
“Faith springs eternal.” Globe & Mail, July 23, 2002:A11.

"Canada's Teens: A National Reading on Family Life." TRANSITION, Autumn, 2001:3-7.

"Interest in the CFL Continues to Exceed NFL."
January 23, 2001.  

"Homosexuality in Canada: A National Reading." May 13, 2002.

"Interest in NBA Increasing - Slightly and Slowly." March 12, 2001.