One of the things that we often hear when we tell folks that we are working on a project that is studying the growing number of nones in the United States is something along the lines of, “Oh, I’m not that religious, but I consider myself highly spiritual.”
It’s a concept that we talk about a lot in social science. So much so that we have a term for it: SBNR (Spiritual But Not Religious). It’s been written about for decades by scholars of American religion and it’s become part of the lexicon among religious leaders throughout the United States.
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