REGINALD W. BIBBY

TRACKING & TRANSLATING TRENDS

 

REGINALD W BIBBY

THINGS NEW

PROJECT CANADA

BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

PAPERS PLUS

FROM THE DATA ARCHIVES

FROM THE MEDIA ARCHIVES

Things New

 
Now Available on Amazon

 
One Book, Four Different Formats

  8.5 X 11 in both paperback & hardcover                    

6 x 9 in paperback

6 x 9 in hardcover

 




  • Pulling it all together
  • Highlight findings of the Project Canada Surveys, 1975-2025
  • Numbers but much, much more
  • Weaving together data, history, & personal biography
  • Information on just about everything!
  • An essential Canadian social history resource

 

An Unmatched Look at Canadians
Spanning the Past 50 Years

 
Some Select Early Media Attention

Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun.  "Religion is down dramatically in Canada, but not spiritual impulse." August 7, 2026
John Longhurst, On Faith Canada.  "Vanishing Gods: A conversation with Reginald Bibby about the changing Canadian religious landscape."  August 5, 2026.
John Longhurst, Winnipeg Free Press.  "Canada Experiencing Religious Decline." August 1, 2026.
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun. "Canadians grew more wary, discouraged in past 50 years," says veteran pollster. June 17, 2026.
Dan Ralph. Canadian Press. "Bibby proposes CFL return to American expansion." June 17. 2026.

Dan Ralph
Doug Todd
John Longhurst
 
 
Three Significant Books
in 2016, 2017, 2019

 
From Dundurn Press (2019)
 
 
From UBC Press (2017)

The Fifth Book in Bibby's "Gods" Series Monitoring Canadian Religious Developments...

Following Fragmented Gods (1987), Unknown Gods (1993), Restless Gods (2002), Beyond the Gods (2011)


RESILIENT GODS

Being Pro-Religious, Low Religious, or No Religious in Canada

    • Important new national and global data
    • A clearer and even more convincing presentation of the polarization thesis
    • A delineation of pro-religious and no religious inclinations
    • A new exposition of the important segment of people "in the religious middle"
    • Stimulating...provocative...must-reading!

 
 
 
With Angus Reid
(2016)

 

Contents

      Introduction      Just When Some People Thought it Was Over

  1. The Backdrop: The First 500 Years

  2. New Life in the 21st Century

  3. A Closer Look at the Importance and Nature of Faith

  4. A Closer Look at the Impact of Faith on Life

  5. Where Things Are Headed

  6. What’s Needed by Way of a Response

  7. Achieving the Possible and the Impossible

     Conclusion         Beyond Vitality, Hope, and Perplexity