Religion Didn’t Die—It Became Obsolete | Christian Smith
Why did religion decline in America—and was it really driven by hostility toward faith?
In this episode, Loren talks with sociologist Christian Smith about his book Why Religion Went Obsolete and the cultural, technological, and institutional changes that reshaped American religion over the last several decades. Smith, well known for coining the term “moralistic therapeutic deism,” argues that religion did not simply decline or get pushed out by secularism—it became culturally obsolete.
The conversation explores Smith’s argument that the early 1990s marked a major cultural turning point…
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