Ryan Bell

RYAN BELL holds multiple undergraduate degrees in various fields and a master’s in sociology. He works in cyber security and pursues independent research projects in computational and quantitative social science.

A Barometer for Mormon Social Science | Jana Riess, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church.

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 4

Latter-day Saints studies has long remained the prerogative of scholars in the humanities, lacking commensurate scholarly attention in the social sciences. Periodically, however, a promising piece of social science research is promulgated by investigators seeking to understand the Mormon movement “on the ground.” Though usually insightful, these comparatively rare works vary with respect to ambition and sophistication.