Poll‑driven revival illusions

High‑profile narratives of social 'revivals' can be manufactured by flawed or gamed survey samples, producing a public story that collapses when method failures are exposed. At the same time, local institutional signals (baptisms, course attendance, catechumen numbers) can show real but geographically uneven religious rebounds that polls may miss or exaggerate. — Shows that debates about religious resurgence depend as much on measurement quality and media framing as on real social change, with consequences for political mobilization and cultural storytelling.