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'Spiritual, but not religious': why Americans are abandoning religious institutions to pursue their own paths to the divine

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Title	'Spiritual, but not religious': why Americans are abandoning religious institutions to pursue their own paths to the divine
Author	Hahn, Jennifer Lois
Author email	jenniferlhahn@gmail.com; hahnj@usc.edu
Degree	Master of Arts
Document type	Project
Degree program	Journalism (Print Journalism)
School	Annenberg School for Communication
Date defended/completed	2009-07-01
Date submitted	2009
Restricted until	Restricted until 23 Jan. 2010.
Date published	2010-01-23
Advisor (committee chair)	Winston, Diane
Advisor (committee member)	Cole, K.C. Iwamura, Jane
Abstract	All across America, people are leaving their churches and synagogues to pursue their own individual paths to the divine. Many of them call themselves “spiritual, but not religious.” This article explores in detail what they mean by this, the history of “unchurched” spirituality in America, the ramifications of disaffiliation for traditional religious bodies, and what these institutions are doing to entice their ex-members back into their pews.
Keyword	spirituality; religion; church; new age; seekers; Methodist; Catholic; unchurched; unaffiliated
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Language	English
Part of collection	University of Southern California dissertations and theses
Publisher (of the original version)	University of Southern California
Place of publication (of the original version)	Los Angeles, California
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Provenance	Electronically uploaded by the author
Type	texts
Legacy record ID	usctheses-m2386
Rights	Hahn, Jennifer Lois
Repository name	Libraries, University of Southern California
Repository address	Los Angeles, California
Repository email	http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/
Filename	etd-Hahn-3127
Archival file	uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Hahn-3127.pdf

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