In 2008, roughly 15 percent of Americans told telephone surveyors with the American Religious Identification Survey that they had no…
Religion’s reputation
The politics of spirituality
A critical discussion of recent studies on America’s growing “no religion” population and the manifestations of spirituality and spiritual movements in political life as they take shape around various contemporary issues, including ecology, health and the body, race, and sexuality.
An untapped constituency
In his 2008 documentary (some might prefer to call it a mockumentary) Religulous, comedian and satirist Bill Maher wonders aloud…
Shifting drivers of change
Today, contemporary voluntary religion entails a “common-sense” epistemology that in some ways is strangely unaware of its own limits. Today’s…
Who has ‘religion’?
More and more Americans say they have no formal religious affiliation. National surveys, scholarly findings, and media coverage make that…
Unchurched believers
In 2002 we reported that the fraction of American adults with no religious preference doubled from 7 to 14 percent…