{"id":996,"date":"2014-01-02T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/have-we-reached-the-end-of-traditional-religion.html"},"modified":"2014-01-02T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T22:14:00","slug":"have-we-reached-the-end-of-traditional-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/have-we-reached-the-end-of-traditional-religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Have We Reached the End of Traditional Religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Maybe the Christian Right is right. For almost 40 years now, they\u2019ve been warning us that we\u2019ve entered the wilderness, that traditional religion is being eroded. Did 2013 prove them right?<\/span><\/div>\n

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Item One: the Rise of the Nones. This phenomenon \u2014 nearly 20% of Americans listing \u201cnone\u201d as their religious affiliation \u2014 was first documented in 2012, but only in 2013 did it emerge as a demographic and political fact, impacting how we vote, how we live and what we think about political issues. Strikingly, there are more and more Nones the younger the demographic sample gets. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, 32% are Nones.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Item Two, or perhaps One-A, is the Pew Research Center\u2019s survey of American Jews, which showed that 20% of American Jews (there\u2019s that number again) consider themselves \u201cJews of no religion,\u201d and that their non-religious Judaism is not a deep or sticky enough of an identity to be sustainable.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Third, even among non-Nones (Somes?), religious affiliation appears to be growing more polarized: There are now more fundamentalists, more liberal-to-atheists and fewer mainliners in between. Denominationally, this means fewer Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, Conservative Jews and Reform Jews \u2014 and more evangelicals, Pentecostals, ultra-Orthodox and non-denominationals.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Mega-churches are spreading \u2014 it\u2019ll be interesting to see whether charismatic forms of Judaism will mimic their success \u2014 and old-line churches are dwindling. It seems that the center cannot hold.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Maybe the Christian Right is right. For almost 40 years now, they\u2019ve been warning us that we\u2019ve entered the wilderness, that traditional religion is being eroded. Did 2013 prove them right? Item One: the Rise of the Nones. This phenomenon \u2014 nearly 20% of Americans listing \u201cnone\u201d as their religious affiliation \u2014 was first documented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nHave We Reached the End of Traditional Religion?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maybe the Christian Right is right. 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