Overview
- Gallup’s new two‑year aggregate, released Thursday, reports 42% of men ages 18–29 now call religion very important, up from 28% in 2022–23.
- Young men’s monthly‑or‑more service attendance rose to about 40%, the highest level in over a decade, according to the same polling series.
- The gains are concentrated on the right, with far higher attendance among young Republicans than Democrats and similar partisan gaps among young women.
- PRRI finds a countertrend among women under 30, with 43% identifying as religiously unaffiliated, a sharp rise from 29% in 2013.
- Scholars caution against declaring a national revival, noting Gallup’s small young‑subgroup samples (295 men, 145 women) and saying local surges in some Catholic and Orthodox parishes may not reflect a broad shift while overall U.S. religiosity remains near lows.