Reginald Bibby

Reginald Wayne Bibby
Born	Edmonton, Alberta
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Alberta The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary University of Calgary Washington State University
Awards	Order of Canada
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of Lethbridge

Reginald Wayne Bibby, OC is a Canadian sociologist. He has held the Board of Governors Research Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge since 2001.

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta, a B.D. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Calgary, and a Ph.D. from Washington State University.

In 2006, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Over the past four decades, Bibby has been monitoring social trends in Canada through a series of well-known national surveys of adults and teenagers, in the process gathering pioneering and historic data on religion and youth. He has presented his findings in North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, lecturing at such institutions as the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta, the University of Manitoba, McMaster University, Queen's University, the University of Toronto, Acadia University, Oxford, Notre Dame, and Harvard.

But he also has made a career-long effort to present his research and its implications for life in a wide variety of settings outside of the formal academic world. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Academic Award from the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations , acknowledging his “outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university” through his “research and other professional activities.” He is the author of sixteen books, numerous monographs, and some one hundred journal and magazine articles. His "crossover" books have known extensive academic and public readerships, to date with total sales of more than 160,000 copies.

Bibby is one of the country's better known academics. His work has been covered in virtually all of Canada's major dailies and has received front cover treatment by Maclean's magazine on four occasions – April 9, 2001, July 1, 2006, April 13, 2009, and March 30, 2015. In addition, he has contributed articles to newspapers including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, and Ottawa Citizen. His extensive national television and radio appearances over the years have included the CBC and CTV national news, Canada AM, Question Period, As It Happens, Cross Country Checkup, Sunday Edition, various CBC Newsworld/News Network programs, TSN's Off the Record, and such well-known, former Canadian mainstays as Peter Gzowski's Morningside (radio program), Shelagh Rogers' Sounds Like Canada, Valerie Pringle's Midday (CBC), and Pamela Wallin Live. In the United States, his work has been given exposure by prominent news outlets including as The New York Times, the USA Today, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times.

He continues to keep a close eye on social trends, and is preparing a major book that will coincide with Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, which will trace trends spanning 1967 through 2017 while extending the trends research to explore where life in Canada will be by its 200th anniversary in 2067. The project is being carried out with the help of Andrew Grenville, the Chief Research Officer at MARU/VCR&C (formerly Vision Critical) and Angus Reid and the Angus Reid Institute, resulting in the generation of important new survey data that complement and extend Bibby's Project Canada Surveys program.

Bibby is routinely sought after for comment, data, and presentations.

Selected bibliography

• The emerging generation: An inside look at Canada's teenagers. Co-authored with Don Posterski (1985, ISBN 0-7725-1818-1)
• Fragmented gods: The poverty and potential of religion in Canada (1987, ISBN 0-7737-5422-9)
• Mosaic madness: The poverty and potential of life in Canada (1990, ISBN 0-7737-5399-0)
• Teen trends: A nation in motion. Co-authored with Don Posterski (1992, ISBN 0-7737-5531-4)
• Unknown gods: The Ongoing Story of Religion in Canada (1993, ISBN 0-7737-5606-X)
• The Bibby report: Social trends Canadian style (1995, ISBN 0-7737-5748-1)
• There's got to be more! Connecting churches & Canadians (1995, ISBN 1-55145-048-8)
• Canada's teens: Today, yesterday, and tomorrow (2001, ISBN 0-7737-6181-0)
• Restless gods: The renaissance of religion in Canada (2002, ISBN 2-89507-555-7)
• Restless churches: How Canada's churches can contribute to the emerging religious renaissance (2004, ISBN 2-89507-518-2)
• The boomer factor: What Canada's most famous generation is leaving behind (2006, ISBN 978-0-9780554-4-8)
• The emerging millennials: How Canada's newest generation is responding to change & choice (2009, ISBN 978-0-9810614-0-5)
• Beyond the gods and back: The demise and rise of religion in Canada (2011, ISBN 978-0-9810614-2-9)
• A new day: The resilience & restructuring of religion in Canada (2012, ISBN 978-0 9810614-5-0)
• Canada's Catholics: Vitality and hope in a new era. Co-authored with Angus Reid (2016, ISBN 978-2-89688-261-8)

External links

• Official web site