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-As commitment to religion wanes, people are looking for other forms of belief and belonging.

Shripriya Mahesh • A Sense of Belonging

For generations, they had been Catholics without belief; now they were Jews without knowledge.

Edward Kritzler • Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean

Tara Isabella Burton, who studied the “religiously unaffiliated” in her 2020 book, “Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World,” has written that many people who have lost trust in institutions will put their faith in Instagram influencers specializing in self-care. A center devoted to self-improvement and community — expertly marketed and bu... See more

New York Times • SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood

Believing God

Beth Moore

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among those who say they are “nothing in particular” when it comes to their religious belonging, a third still say religion is “somewhat” or “very important” to them. They left the religious label behind but not their belief.

Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching

By 2012, however, a poll by the Pew Forum discovered that nearly 20 percent (i.e. one in five) of Americans checked “none” or no religious affiliation. One-third of adults under the age of thirty are religiously unaffiliated.

John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel

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Joshua Balarie • 7 cards

Back in 2007, 15 percent of Americans called themselves religiously unaffiliated, meaning that they didn’t consider themselves to be members of any traditional organized religion. By 2012, that number had risen to 20 percent, and to 30 percent when it came to adults under thirty.3 Now, those numbers are higher still. About a quarter of American adu

Tara Isabella Burton • Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

This is the category of person who likes religious ideas when other people believe in them, who wants religion to exist for its civilization-shaping qualities without personally accepting any of its impositions, who draws pleasure from what the late Richard John Neuhaus called “regretful unbelief,” who only really believes in belief .