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America’s Relig-ish Revival
I'm thinking a ton about how to make a religion out of a truth-seeking community. An individualist religion, where people are trying to navigate and model the world together, rather than accepting past ancestors facts just out of faith.
Plexus
A religion of emotive intuition, of aestheticized and commodified experience, of self-creation and self-improvement and, yes, selfies. A religion for a new generation of Americans raised to think of themselves both as capitalist consumers and as content creators. A religion decoupled from institutions, from creeds, from metaphysical truth-claims ab
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They prioritize intuitional spirituality over institutional religion. And they want, when available institutional options fail to suit their needs, the freedom to mix and match, to create their own daily rituals and practices and belief systems.