Jana Riess: Is traditional religion becoming obsolete?

Jana Riess: Is traditional religion becoming obsolete?

Traditional religion may be destined for the walls of Cracker Barrel, a space filled with nostalgic advertisements for products of yesteryear, like Victrolas, lace antimacassars or butter churns. All things, in other words, that have been rendered obsolete by modern life.

Sociologist's new book explains why organized religion has lost relevancy

(RNS) — Christian Smith’s research shows traditional religion isn’t just declining. It’s culturally obsolete.

Global Departure from the Religion of One’s Youth, New Study Finds

A new Pew Research Center report finds that across numerous nations, one-fifth of adults surveyed have left the religion of their youth. Both Christianity and Buddhism shared the largest losses due to “religious switching.”  Pew defines religious switching as “a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in adulthood).” Rather than “conversion,” this term …

Exodus of the faithful: The loss of significance of the Christian churches in Germany reaches historical proportions. For the first time in the country there are more non-denominationals than church members. Protestant and Catholic leaders have equally attributed this to themselves. A commentary by Laila Mirzo. This post More and more nondenominationals When believers turn their backs on the church was published on Young Freedom.

Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Loss of habit, not belief, drives secularisation

THE most striking thing about the evangelism of the mainstream Churches in secular countries is how very useless it is. It’s one of those things so obvious that everyone has to ignore it if the conversation is to remain civilised. So, the Church o...