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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John DeLin.

And today, I'm very excited to have with us Dr. Ryan Cragan. Dr. Ryan Cragan, I think you've been on Mormon Stories before, right?

That's correct. I've been on once before.

I think Scott Holly interviewed you about demographics and demographic trends within Mormonism, right?

That's correct, yeah.

But Ryan is a professor of sociology at the University of Tampa. You just got tenure, right?

That's correct. I am now an associate professor. That's right.

Congratulations. Thank you.

And Ryan specializes in the sociological study of religion. So he's a sociologist and he focuses on Mormonism, the non-religious and secularization.

So kind of spans our audience, really.

I think I think it'd be fair to start, you know, with a couple of disclaimers.

Well, first, Ryan has a brand new book out. It's going to be available. Did you say June or July?

June 1st.

June 1st. You can preorder on Amazon. The book is called What You Don't Know About Religion But Should.

You can purchase it through Mormon stories. And if you do, Ryan will get all his royalties plus Mormon stories.

We'll get a small little percentage back.

But I encourage you all to buy the book. And just for disclaimers, I'm going to provide a disclaimer, which is that I, you know,

I am active in the church now. I've kind of been in and out a bit, but I go and I consider myself sort of friendly to religion.

And I have not brought Ryan on in any way to, to trash, you know, religion or to dissuade people from belief.

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