Who are the ‘nones’?: New Pew study debunks myths about America’s nonreligious.
“Today, the ‘nones’ kind of look like everybody else,” said sociologist Ryan Cragun. “At some level, we’re saying, hey, actually, this is just your neighbour.” KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports…
Study: Most Americans are spiritual but a growing number say they are not religious
United StatesRNS Americans have been abandoning organised religion in droves and while some have walked away from religion altogether, a distinct group of Americans now call themselves “spiritual but not religious”. A new Pew Research study puts their numbers at 22 per cent of Americans and attempts to describe them in greater detail. PICTURE: Marek Piwnicki/Unsplash The […]
ESSAY: RISE OF THE ‘NOTHING IN PARTICULARS’ MAY BE SIGN OF A DISJOINTED, DISAFFECTED AND LONELY FUTURE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, RYAN BURGE, co-founder of Religion in Public, looks at the ramifications of the rise in people in the US who claim no religious identity…