{"id":1309,"date":"2013-07-24T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/07\/the-word-religion-has-fallen-from-grace-with-many-americans.html"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:37:00","slug":"the-word-religion-has-fallen-from-grace-with-many-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/07\/the-word-religion-has-fallen-from-grace-with-many-americans.html","title":{"rendered":"The Word \u2018Religion\u2019 Has Fallen From Grace With Many Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Religion is in trouble in the United States. The word, that is.<\/span><\/div>\n
Sociologists say that we are increasingly divided over religion\u2019s place in public life but that when it comes to language, Americans are moving in one direction: toward a new vernacular.<\/span><\/div>\n
We\u2019re no longer \u201creligious.\u201d We\u2019re \u201choly.\u201d We\u2019re \u201cfaithful.\u201d We\u2019re \u201cspiritual.\u201d We talk about what \u201cthe gospel compels us to do\u201d or \u201cgospel living.\u201d Or \u201csabbatical living\u201d and \u201cGod-oriented behavior.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
This is true across the ideological range, but for different reasons.<\/span><\/div>\n
On one side of the spectrum are people such as prominent liberal scholar Diana Butler Bass, author of last year\u2019s \u201cChristianity After Religion<\/a>,\u201d who says the word \u201creligion\u201d is laden with\u00a0negative, hurtful and political<\/a>\u00a0baggage. The 20\u00a0percent of Americans who now call themselves unaffiliated with any religious group see religion\u00a0as much too focused on rules.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Religion is in trouble in the United States. The word, that is. Sociologists say that we are increasingly divided over religion\u2019s place in public life but that when it comes to language, Americans are moving in one direction: toward a new vernacular. We\u2019re no longer \u201creligious.\u201d We\u2019re \u201choly.\u201d We\u2019re \u201cfaithful.\u201d We\u2019re \u201cspiritual.\u201d We talk about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Word \u2018Religion\u2019 Has Fallen From Grace With Many Americans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Religion is in trouble in the United States. 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