Four (or Five) Types of Mormons? - Are LDS Church Members Secularizing? | Ep. 2074
Description
Join John Dehlin, Julie Hanks, Jana Spangler, and Beau Oyler (the Mormon Bridgebuilders) as we review a new analysis of LDS Church members by Alex Bass.
Links:
- Robert Kirby's 5 Types of Mormons
00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:15 Maddie Packer clip
00:11:29 Julie’s response to this clip
00:16:44 How social media plays into the problem - only sound bits are shared
00:23:52 Introducing Alex Bass
00:26:05 Alex’s “Mormon Typology Report”
00:28:23 How Alex conducted this survey
00:29:49 The Four Types of Mormons
00:32:27 First type: “devout believers"
00:33:47 Second typer: “The adaptive believers”
00:43:32 Is Mormon Orthodoxy in decline?
00:52:33 Third Type: “The Inbetweeners”
00:55:42 Fourth Type: “Cultural Mormons”
01:12:24 Graph of how the groups are changing over time
01:15:27 Saying goodbye and thank you to Alex
01:16:15 Ben Park’s summary of this study
01:19:14 Applications to BYU are declining
01:30:33 LDS is the highest republican group
01:37:17 Half of mormons now support same-sex marriage
01:54:35 Mayci Nealey (SLOMW) clip
01:54:42 Welcoming Patrick Mason to the panel
02:17:00 Jana on the "Hallmarks of developmental psychology”
02:28:43 How Mormon Stories has tried to encourage people to stay in the church
02:32 14 The three types of Mormons who are still attending church
02:39:30 How wards have different “personalities”
02:58:21 Closing thoughts
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