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An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American exreligious

The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution Or perhaps it is better to say a nonreligious revolution Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion The great majority of these religious nones also say that they used to belong to a religion but no longer do These are the nonverts think converts but from having religion to having none There are currently about fiftynine million of them in the United States

Nonverts explores who they are and why they joined the rising tide of the exreligious One of worlds leading experts on contemporary atheism and nonreligiosity sociologist and theologian Stephen Bullivant draws on dozens of interviews original analysis of highquality survey data and a wealth of cuttingedge studies to present an entertaining and insightful exploration of Americas exreligious landscape Bullivant crisscrosses the country talking to everyone from exMormons in Utah to exCatholics in Pennsylvania from exEvangelicals in Georgia to exMuslims in California showing not only what they have in common but also how the traditions they left behind continue to shape them