When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic…
Passion and virtue in public life
religious nones
Political backlash and the rise of “nones”
In an article that appears in the open access online journal Sociological Science, sociologists Michael Hout and Claude Fisher take…
Millennial storytelling
The Immanent Frame editor-at-large Nathan Schneider recently talked to radio host Krista Tippett for her Peabody Award-winning show “On Being.”
Engaging the “spiritual but not religious” vote
In an essay published at the Atlantic online, TIF editor-at-large Steven Barrie-Anthony urges politicians and pundits to pay closer attention to…
Secularism and secularity at the AAR
At the upcoming annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, to be held November 23-26 in Baltimore, a new program unit on “Secularism…
Is the increase in the non-religious a “bad thing”?
A new survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life found that an increasing number of American adults identify as…
Is Latin America losing its religion?
Writing in the Christian Century, Philip Jenkins suggests that there are signs of an early stage European style "secularization" at…
Are some ‘nones’ combinative religionists?
Over at the Huffington Post, Sean McCloud reflects on the continued attention given to religious disaffiliation in the American media.
The alienation of religion from the left
Noting that "nearly all of the white Americans who drifted away from organized religion in the last few decades were…
Understanding “nones”
In a new article for Religion Dispatches, Elizabeth Drescher, responds to a piece by Katherine Stewart and attempts to clarify…