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Title: God Is Alive and Well
Subtitle: The Future of Religion in America
Author: Frank Newport
Narrator: Adam Grupper
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-14-16
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought
Publisher's Summary:
Popular books such as The God Delusion have dismissed religion as a delusional artifact of evolution and ancient superstitions. But should millions of Americans' statements of belief and their behavior be dismissed that quickly? The pattern of religious influence in American society suggests mass consequence rather than mass delusion. In God Is Alive and Well, Frank Newport, Gallup's Editor-in-Chief, provides a new evidence-based analysis of Americans' religious beliefs and practices - and bold predictions about religion's future in the U.S.
Most Americans are at least marginally religious, significantly more so than in most developed nations around the world. The majority of Americans believe in God and say that religion is important in their daily lives. And Americans routinely participate in religious rituals.
Levels of religious consciousness are not distributed equally. Systematic patterns of differences in religion occur with surprising regularity. An American's religiosity is very much bound up with social position and geographic space. There is an important interplay between religion and life status factors - age, gender, marital status, having children - and with achieved status distinctions - class, education, income.
Those who are most religious are demonstrably different across a wide spectrum of outcomes from those who are not. These include lifestyle choices, social participation, ideology, partisanship, and views on political and social issues. Religion can be the driver for highly disruptive social behaviors, up to and including the taking of human life.
Unlike citizens of any other country in the world, Americans group themselves into hundreds of distinct micro religious groups and denominations. These groups are constantly evolving, splitting like amoeba to form new groups. The most common pattern today is the development of the "no name" religious group, consisting of Americans who worship only under the banner of their own nondenominational predilections. These religious groupings are sociologically related to social status, geography, politics, and social and political attitudes.
The emotional, non-negotiable bases of religion and the nature of its appeal to the most ultimate of rationales mean that highly religious Americans are one of the most potentially influential groups in society. Religious beliefs provide a foundation for much of today's American politics.
America is and will remain a religious nation, and it is entirely possible that in many ways, religion will be more, rather than less, important in the years ahead.
Members Reviews:
Uninspired material
The stats quoted in book may be so dated that they are no longer valid. Author repeated himself continually through out the book.
optimistic and Gallup-centric
Book Basics
God is Alive and Well offers an unusually optimistic appraisal of the future of American religion based primarily on Gallup interview data from recent years. Newport, Editor in Chief at Gallup, argues that any attempt to characterize America as something other than a Christian nation is faulty approach since "80% of all Americans are Christians, and 95% of all Americans who have a religion are Christian" (p.21).