Tuesday, September 18, 2018

The Paradox of American Religion and American Secularism


In America, some of the most (apparently) devout people behave in the most secular ways. This is not a new phenomenon – the great sociologist Will Herberg was one of the first to identify it in his classic book Protestant-Catholic-Jew (1955). Polls in the 1950s already showed that Americans were overwhelmingly religious, but they often seemed to know little about the faith they affirmed. Read More

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