Four (or Five) Types of Mormons? - Are LDS Church Members Secularizing? | Ep. 2074
Mormon Stories Podcast
Generational Shifts: Young LDS Becoming Adaptive
Conversation about younger members drinking coffee, skipping missions, exploring spirituality, and valuing pluralism and autonomy.
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
02:3214 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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