Challenging the myth of religious decline, The Death of Religion? reveals how faith remains vibrant and essential to human flourishing, backed by groundbreaking global

Overview

The common media and scholarly storyespecially with the rise of people who dont identify with any religionsuggests that religion in America is in serious decline.In Death of Religion?: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith, Byron R. Johnson and Tommy Kidd strongly challenge this view.

In this work, they argue that the idea of religions decline has been greatly exaggerated and that survey data can often be misleading or incomplete. Their approach is to show that faith is actually healthier and more active than many believe, and that it continues to play a vital role in a thriving society. To support this claim, Johnson and Kidd use recent data from the Global Flourishing Study. This research provides valuable insights into patterns of religious commitment both nationally and worldwide, helping readers understand that faith remains an important factor in human well-being and societal flourishing.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Faith and Flourishing: Introducing the Global Flourishing Study
Chapter 1 Flourishing in America: Whats Faith (and Church) Got to Do with It?
Chapter 2 Is the World Becoming Less Religious? Implications for Human Flourishing
Chapter 3 The Halo Effect: Estimating the Social and Economic Impacts of Religion

Part 2: Predicting Religious Decline: A Longtime American Tradition
Chapter 4 Nothingarians and the Fear of the Unchurched in Early America
Chapter 5 Indifferentism: Religious Apathy, the Catholic Menace, and Preserving a Christian Nation
Chapter 6 No Religion and the Demise of the Mainline Denominations

Part 3: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith
Chapter 7 Are the Nones Really Irreligious?
Chapter 8 From the Nones to the Others: The Missing Believers and Churches in Religion Surveys

Conclusion
General Index