Stephen T. Cranney

Stephen Cranney is a government education and social stratification statistician and an occasional freelance data scientist. He has a joint Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Demography from University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Political Science from Brigham Young University. His research interests center around education, fertility intentions, sexuality, and the social psychology of religion.

Divine Darwinism, Comprehensible Christianity, and the Atheist’s Wager: Richard Rorty on Mormonism—an Interview with Mary V. Rorty and Patricia Rorty

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 2

Cranney: Richard mentions in Philosophy and Social Hope the dangers of fundamentalist religions and the extent of their political influence. Where did Mormonism fit on the fundamentalist continuum?

Mary Rorty: That’s a very interesting question because that’s something that has changed a great deal in my lifetime. The thought that Mormonism now considers itself in part an ally of the Evangelical Protestant movement is a surprise to many people, and that’s certainly not the side of Mormonism to which Richard had been exposed.

Cranney: Were there any specific instances . . . Of course, he died before Proposition 8 in California.