To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America. By 2018, twenty-six percent of adults identified as unaffiliated–up more than seventeen percent since 2009. Even more startling, more than thirty percent of those under the age of thirty now identify as "Nones"–answering "none" when queried about their religious affiliation. Is America losing its religion? Or, as more and more Americans choose different spiritual paths, are they changing what it means to be religious in the United States today? Elizabeth Drescher helps us explore this topic. Her research, teaching, and writing focuses on religion, spiritual, and nonreligion as it is practiced by ordinary people in the contexts of everyday life. She holds a PhD in Christian Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union, and an MA in Roman Catholic Systematic Theology from Duquesne University (2000). Dr. Drescher is the author of several books, including Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of American Nones (Oxford University Press, 2016). She has published popular articles on American religious and spiritual life, new media and religion, and the challenges of religious leadership in America, The Atlantic Wire, AlterNet, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, Religion Dispatches, Christianity Today, Sojourners, and other national publications.
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