REGINALD W. BIBBY

TRACKING & TRANSLATING TRENDS

 

Reginald W. Bibby

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The Emerging Millennials  2009
                                                                                                            The Boomer Factor  2006
                                                                                  
                           Restless Churches  2004
                                                         Restless Gods  2002
                                                                                                 Canada's Teens  2001
The Bibby Report
 1995
                                                                                              There's Got to Be More!  1995
                                                                           Unknown Gods  1993
                                                                                                                Teen Trends (with Donald Posterski)  1992
                                                                                                     Mosaic Madness  1990
Fragmented Gods  1987
The Emerging Generation (with Donald Posterski)  1985

 
RELIGION

Since the turn of the new century, Reginald Bibby has been maintaining that there are signs that organized religion is making a modest comeback in Canada. The vast majority of Canadians continue to identify with the country's dominant religious groups, participate in those groups in numbers that are only rivalled by involvement in sports and recreation, and indicate that they are receptive to even greater involvement if, in fact, religious groups can play a significant role in their lives. In Restless Gods, he documents the ongoing interest not only in spirituality but also in organized religion. In Restless Churches, he summarizes the religious situation in Canada, and suggests ways in which religious groups might respond to the opportunity and responsibility they face.

 
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YOUTH

Bibby has been monitoring social trends among Canadian youth through national surveys of teenagers, 15-to-19, who are still in school, in 1984, 1992, and 2000. A fourth survey is planned for 2008. These surveys have been provided extremely valuable readings on young people. The wealth of information in this book resulted in its receiving front page coverage from Maclean's when it was first released in April of 2001.

The surveys have resulted in three books - The Emerging Generation (1985), Teen Trends (1992), and Canada's Teens (2001). The first two books were co-authored with Donald Posterski.  Because Canada's Teens combines the findings of the first three national youth surveys, along with Bibby's six Project Canada adult national surveys spanning 1975-2000, the book may well contain more dat
a on social trends in Canada than virtually any single publication to date.

The result is incredibly rich data on both young people and adults, that are woven together to provide an in-depth look at teenagers today, yesterday, and tomorrow. As a result, this book is an invaluable resource on Canadian life, and will be for decades to come. Indicative of its importance, the book was featured in a cover story in Maclean's when it was released in April of 2001.



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A Special Monograph (2004)
 
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