A New York Time article called Dan Brown’s America by Ross Doutha explains:
In the Brownian worldview, all religions — even Roman Catholicism — have the potential to be wonderful, so long as we can get over the idea that any one of them might be particularly true. It’s a message perfectly tailored for 21st-century America, where the most [...]
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American Spirituality and Dan Brown
Posted in Demographic Trends, Religious Trends on May 20, 2009 | Comments Off
America Is Becoming Post-Christian?
Posted in Demographic Trends, Religious Trends on April 6, 2009 | Comments Off
From the cover story of Newsweek, “The End of Christian America,”
There it was, an old term with new urgency: post-Christian. This is not to say that the Christian God is dead, but that he is less of a force in American politics and culture than at any other time in recent memory. To the surprise of [...]
Islam Outgrows Catholicism
Posted in Catholicism, Islam, Religious Trends on April 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Muslims praying at Badshahi mosque.
One of the headlines in the news today documented how Muslims now outnumber Catholics worldwide. The Vatican newspaper reported that Catholics accounted for 17.4% of the world populations, while Muslims accounted for 19.2%. However, Christianity in the most general sense is still the largest with 33%. According to Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, one [...]
Mainline Denominations are Dying
Posted in Religious Trends on March 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This year, the National Council of Churches put out their annual yearbook of U.S. churches. Here are some of the findings:
The Yearbook ranks the 25 largest churches by membership. Only three of the top 10 – the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church (USA) – are “mainline” Protestant [...]
