Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening

by Bass, Diana Butler

• ISBN13: 9780062003737
• ISBN10: 0062003739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-14
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity's leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new "spiritual but not religious" movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary author of A People's History of Christianity, continues the conversation began in books like Brian D. McLaren's A New Kind of Christianity and Harvey Cox's The Future of Faith, examining the connections-and the divisions-between theology, practice, and community that Christians experience today. Bass's clearly worded, powerful, and probing Christianity After Religion is required reading for anyone invested in the future of Christianity.

Table of Contents

The Beginning	p. 1
The End of Religion
The End of the Beginning	p. 11
Questioning the Old Gods	p. 39
When Religion Fails	p. 65
A New Vision
Believing	p. 103
Behaving	p. 137
Belonging	p. 169
The Great Reversal	p. 199
Awakening
Great Awakening	p. 217
Performing Awakening	p. 253
Acknowledgments	p. 271
Notes	p. 275
Index	p. 288
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