{"id":2758,"date":"2024-01-24T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/a-year-of-crisis-and-opportunity-2024-trends-in-religion-and-society\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:01:58","slug":"a-year-of-crisis-and-opportunity-2024-trends-in-religion-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/crcc\/a-year-of-crisis-and-opportunity-2024-trends-in-religion-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Crisis and Opportunity: 2024 Trends in Religion and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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A Year of Crisis and Opportunity: 2024 Trends in Religion and Society<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>CRCC Staff<\/strong>\n \n January 24, 2024<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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In CRCC\u2019s annual trends post last year<\/a>, we wrote about surviving, if not thriving. We write this year\u2019s trends with a special place in our hearts for CRCC\u2019s senior editor Nick Street<\/a>, who took a significant role in compiling these trends<\/a> each year, always balancing a sense of cynicism and optimism.<\/p>\n

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Without Nick, we expanded our discussion of the year ahead to include affiliates and friends of CRCC. The group offered a wider range of topics \u2014 conflict, migration, climate change, AI (and how our concerns about it are misplaced), the potential for Jan. 6-inspired unrest, rising evictions and our housing crisis, loneliness and trauma. None of us can claim prophetic power over who will win elections taking place locally, nationally or around the world through 2024. But throughout our discussions, a theme emerged: Religion will have a significant role to play in the public square \u2014 for good or for ill. There is opportunity in crises.<\/p>\n

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Read more about our trends\/opportunities below:<\/p>\n

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