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Spiritual but not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America
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A figure commonly cited in atheist circles is that around ten percent of the population in the United States are nonbelievers. The resulting assumption, understandably enough, seems to be that if ten percent are nonreligious, then the remaining ninety percent must be religious, right? Yet the reality is rather more complicated than that. A significant portion of the population (around twenty percent, according to Robert Fuller) deliberately eschews membership in organized religion, yet nevertheless considers itself to be deeply involved with spiritual matters.

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