Choosing Our Religion : The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones, Hardcover by ...

by Elizabeth Drescher

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Choosing Our Religion : The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones, Hardcover by Drescher, Elizabeth, ISBN 0199341222, ISBN-13 9780199341221, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America. By 2014, more than twenty percent of adults identified as unaffiliated--up more than seven percent just since 2007. Even more startling, more than thirty percent of those under the age of thirty now identify as "Nones"--answering "none" when queried about their religious affiliation. Is America losing its religion? Or, as more and more Americans choose different spiritual paths, are they changing what it means to be religious in the United States today? In Choosing Our Religion, Elizabeth Drescher explores the diverse, complex spiritual lives of Nones across generations and across categories of self-identification such as "Spiritual-But-Not-Religious," "Atheist," "Agnostic," "Humanist," "just Spiritual," and more. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews conducted across the United States, Drescher opens a window into the lives of a broad cross-section of Nones, diverse with respect to age, gender, race, sexual orientation, and prior religious background. She allows Nones to speak eloquently for themselves, illuminating the processes by which they became None, the sources of information and inspiration that enrich their spiritual lives, the p

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2016
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199341221
• Condition: Good

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