Mormons and education
Who’s not watching Mormon General Conference
By Jana Riess — November 7, 2017
The typical Mormon General Conference viewer is a church-going, older, white, college-educated Republican living in Utah—not surprisingly the exact type of person most likely to be seen on the TV screen during Conference sessions.
When Mormons first went to Harvard …
By Jana Riess — December 19, 2016
Brigham Young sent Mormon men and women to the nation's finest universities in order to preserve the religion's separation from the U.S., but they wound up helping it assimilate.
6 unexpected findings about Mormon doubters — and one that’s no surprise
By Jana Riess — July 29, 2016
Older Mormons, not younger ones, are more likely to doubt -- and women are just as likely to doubt as men. These are just two of the surprising findings from Pew's study of Mormons, which is heavily weighted toward the experiences of active Latter-day Saints.
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