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‘Spiritual but not religious’: the rise of consumerism in church

The problems with ‘Spiritual but not Religious’

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

I was raised Christian and the more I’ve thought about it, the more curious something about my upbringing seems. My church was constantly denying it was ‘religious’. By any objective social–scientific measures, the community was decidedly religious. Maybe we weren’t that organised (there was no website), but we recited historic creeds, we submitted to the authority of a sacred text and we practised ancient rituals.

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