Nonverts
The Making of Ex-Christian America

The Phenomenon of Non-version Conservatively speaking, at least 59 million American adults are now currently unaffiliated with any organized institution of faith. A minority of those people, less than 18 million, had no religious upbringing whatsoever. That means that the majority of “Nones” in the U......more

Ever seen a Christian strongman bend iron bars for Jesus? Yeah, me neither. But that bit of evangelical subculture is just one of the oddities I learned about from this interesting book. The author's analysis of why America is secularizing so rapidly is argued well, and probably gets as close as any......more

Interestingly, I read a book last week called “Faith No More,” it was written 10 years ago, and acted as a precursor to this book. It looked at the world by prioritizing the religion before the person rejected the religion, while this book modernizes the subject by considering it more appropriately......more

Stephen Bullivant explores the rise of the "nonverts", i.e. those who grew up in a religion, but left it when they became teens or adults. They "deconverted" as it were and now belong to the so-called "Nones", i.e. those with no religious affiliation and thus answer "none" when asked some variant of......more

When filling up a form asking one’s religious preference, about a third of Americans now check the box labelled None. In my youth it would have been more like 3 pc. Bullivant is a sociologist using the results of mass surveys as well as personal interviews with a wide range of subjects to study the......more