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Nonverts
- The Making of Ex-Christian America
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious
The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious 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 fifty-nine million of them in the United States.
Nonverts explores who they are, and why they joined the rising tide of the ex-religious. One of world's leading experts on contemporary atheism and nonreligiosity, sociologist and theologian Stephen Bullivant draws on dozens of interviews, original analysis of high-quality survey data, and a wealth of cutting-edge studies, to present an entertaining and insightful exploration of America's ex-religious landscape. Bullivant crisscrosses the country, talking to everyone from ex-Mormons in Utah to ex-Catholics in Pennsylvania, from ex-Evangelicals in Georgia to ex-Muslims in California, showing not only what they have in common but also how the traditions they left behind continue to shape them.
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- Matthew Nicholson
- 26-12-2022
Another engaging and well-read book.
I found this title as intellectually engaging and perceptive as Bullivant's other books. He uses statistical analysis well [citing highly relevant, up-to-date US statistics] and his first-hand research (records of face-to-face interviews with 'Nonverts' [ex-Mormons, ex-Evangelicals, ex-Catholics] collected in areas all over the US) provided an insight into the world of this rapidly growing sector of society in the US. Bullivant relates all of this data with his cheeky style and good sense-of-humour, which tempers the sections where stark data are recalled, and could otherwise lead to one's attention wandering (in the audio-book, where the graphs he refers to in the text are not readily to hand. Seeing the actual stats on the page might lead to a different experience).
The book is read at a good pace, and places due emphasis on words where they are evidently meant to be. The reader is never monotone and makes the overall audio experience pleasurable.
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