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She is married to Phil Smith, and they reside in Cincinnati. Īs of 2017, she was conducting the "The Next Mormons" survey project to look at how different generations of Mormons have interacted with the Church. Among the books by Riess are the 2004 What Would Buffy Do?, and an abridgment of the Book of Mormon with commentary. In July of 2001 Riess moderated a debate between Richard Abanes and Connie Neal at a convention of Christian retailers over the "real religious concern" over the Harry Potter books with regard to their presentation of witchcraft and aspects of the occult. She later published it in book form as The Twible: All the Chapters of the Bible in 140 Characters or Less. Riess tweets the bible in order and plans to hit all 1,189 chapters in 140 characters. Each tweet summarizes a chapter of the bible. Her "Twible" quest concluded in January 2013.

On October 4, 2009, Riess began a project to tweet the bible. Riess and her colleague Benjamin Knoll published a landmark analysis which questioned the accuracy of reports that LDS membership was growing. Riess' 2019 The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, received critical praise Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, describes the work as "ociologically sound, extremely well-researched and well-written". This section needs expansion with: a full scholarly representation on this scholar's writings, based on third party sources. Riess has a Bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, a Master's degree in theology from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD in American Religious studies from Columbia University. Riess has described her father, who died at age 71 in Mobile, Alabama, in October 2010, : 166–9 as "an angry atheist" and her mother as "considerably more charitable but no more interested in organized religion." : 1 : 58, 168 She and her mother Phyllis : xix were, per her description, abandoned by her father without warning in 1984, : 166–9 by which time her brother was on his own.

Early life and education Īs she describes in her own autobiographical writings, Riess was born in the Midwestern United States, and has an older brother, John. Riess' writings have focused on American religions, especially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) of which she is a member, and other new religious movements. Jana Kathryn Riess (born December 13, 1969) : 158 is an American professor, writer, and editor.