Huff Post: by Dianne Butler Bass.
Over the last year, it has become increasingly clear that there are two significant cultural forces reshaping the religious future: 1) the rise of the “unaffiliateds,” including atheists, agnostics, humanists, “spiritual but not religious” and post-theists; and 2) the rise of religious pluralism and immigrant faith in everyday life throughout the West.
Not long after I earned my doctorate in the history of Christianity, someone asked me, “What do you think will be the future of faith?” I replied, echoing Dr. McCoy from the original Star Trek, “I don’t know. I’m a historian, not a soothsayer.”
Strangely enough, people think that historians know the future and believe that past holds some insight to where we might be heading.
Categories: Americas, Belief, Faith, Non-believers