While working on the 1985 book Habits of the Heart, the late sociologist Robert N. Bellah met Sheila, who described her faith in words that researchers have quoted ever since. I can t remember the last time I went to church, she said. My faith has carried me a long way. It s Sheilaism. Just my own little voice. The goal was to love yourself and be gentle with yourself. . I think God would want us to take care of each other.
A decade later, during the so-called New Age era, researchers described a similar faith approach with this mantra: spiritual but not religious.
While working on the 1985 book âHabits of the Heart,â the late sociologist Robert N. Bellah met âSheila,â who described her faith in words that researchers have quoted ever since.
âI canât remember the last time I went to church,â she said. âMy faith has carried me a long way. Itâs Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.â The goal was to âlove yourself and be gentle with yourself . I think God would want us to take care of each other.â
A decade later, during the so-called âNew Ageâ era, researchers described a similar faith approach with this mantra: âspiritual but not religious.â
Jana Riess: Younger Latter-day Saints voted for Biden, but Trump fared well overall
Millennials and members of color chose the Democrat, but two-thirds of U.S. Latter-day Saints overall women and men voted Republican.
(Andrew Harnik | AP file photo) Joe Biden celebrates his victory Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. A survey of election results shows younger Latter-day Saints favored the Democratic former vice president over GOP President Donald Trump.
By Jana Riess | Religion News Service
| April 1, 2021, 11:59 p.m.
Nearly half of U.S. Latter-day Saints under age 40 voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, according to the 2020 Cooperative Election Study (formerly known as the Cooperative Congressional Election Study). The survey canvassed a nationally representative sample of 61,000 American adults.
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A truly inclusive vision of America recognizes the nonreligious, too
Amid rising Christian nationalism, President Biden should reach out directly to the ânones.â
By Greg M. EpsteinUpdated March 14, 2021, 3:01 a.m.
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President Biden departs after attending Mass in Wilmington, Del., last month.Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
Ryan Burge is the longtime pastor to a small church of aging Baptists in Mount Vernon, Ill., a manufacturing hub in the deindustrializing rural Midwest, where he has lived since birth. Raised an evangelical by a father who drove the church bus and a mother who taught Sunday school, he makes an unlikely champion for nonreligious Americans in US electoral politics. But Burge, also a professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, has recently gained a following among atheists like me.