But why, first of all, is this subject a significant one? And why does it appear especially pertinent at precisely…
What does spirituality mean in America today?
religious nones
Elizabeth Drescher on religious “nones”
NDSP Grantee Elizabeth Drescher responds to a new report, “‘Nones’ On the Rise,” released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in…
Rising alternatives to organized religion
In a recent issue of TIME, Amy Sullivan writes of a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion &…
Taking theology seriously
What we need is a bird’s eye view, and that requires taking theology seriously, and considering a longer view of…
Physicists making religion headlines
Ever since he told a Guardian reporter last weekend that the idea of an afterlife is a "fairy story," Stephen…
Surviving the secular
Whether you see “the secular” as a threat or a refuge, an option or an impulse, we are all trying…
Representing the unrepresented
The religiously “unaffiliated”---atheists, agnostics, nonconformists, the unchurched and the uncertain---are underrepresented in Congress, notes Richard Blow today in The New…
How many “nones” make a secular nation?
What is the relationship between rates of church attendance and national identity? When more than 50 percent of a country's…
Who are the “spiritual but not religious”?
Who are the Americans who identify as “spiritual but not religious”? What unifying characteristics, qualities, and beliefs might they share?…
The rise of the seculars
Kosmin and Keysar and others are already analyzing who has given up worship, belief, and other modes of religiosity. I…