Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America By: Christian Smith [Audiobook] | Audiobooks – Pol/Soc/Relig | MP3@128kb/s | 949.64 MiB
2025-09-16 | ASIN: B0FKV9S1D2 | english | 16h53m
Author: Christian Smith
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Is traditional American religion doomed?
Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as “not religious” has increased remarkably. Religious affiliation, service attendance, and belief in God have declined. More and more people claim to be “spiritual but not religious.” Religious organizations have been reeling from revelations of sexual and financial scandals and cover-ups. Public trust in “organized religion” has declined significantly. Crucially, these religious losses are concentrated among younger generations. This means that, barring unlikely religious revivals among youth, the losses will continue and accelerate in time, as less-religious younger Americans replace older more-religious ones and increasingly fewer American children are raised by religious parents.
All this is clear. But what is less clear is exactly why this is happening. We know a lot more about the fact that traditional American religion has declined than we do about why this is so.
Why Religion Went Obsolete aims to change that. Drawing on survey data and hundreds of interviews, Christian Smith offers a sweeping, multifaceted account of why many Americans have lost faith in traditional religion. An array of large-scale social forces came together to render traditional religion culturally obsolete. For growing numbers of Americans, traditional religion no longer seems useful or relevant. Using quantitative empirical measures of big-picture changes over time as well as exploring the larger cultural environment, the cultural “zeitgeist,” Smith explains why this is the case and what it means for the future. Crucially, he argues, it does not mean a strictly secular future. Rather, Americans’ spiritual impulses are being channeled in new and interesting directions.
Why Religion Went Obsolete is a tour de force from one of our leading chroniclers of religion in America.
736K 01 - Opening Credits.mp3 5.0M 02 - Introduction.mp3 30M 03 - Key Concepts.mp3 3.3M 04 - Two Decades of Converging Perfect Storms.mp3 8.8M 05 - The Empirical Evidence.mp3 6.9M 06 - On Interviews, Culture, and Historical Causes.mp3 3.6M 07 - Last Thoughts.mp3 272K 08 - I Setting the Stage.mp3 1.2M 09 - 1. What Needs Explaining.mp3 7.3M 10 - US Religious Affiliation.mp3 5.4M 100 - Styles of Attire and Presentation of Self.mp3 2.6M 101 - Common Slogans.mp3 2.3M 102 - A Caveat.mp3 5.8M 103 - The Defining Grunge Rock (and Mismatched Christian Counterparts).mp3 3.0M 104 - The Zeitgeist in Expert Advice.mp3 92M 105 - An Analytical Model of Zeitgeist Cultural Assumptions.mp3 8.7M 106 - The Reality of Re-Enchantment.mp3 6.2M 107 - Conclusion Why the Zeitgeist Made Religion Obsolete.mp3 2.4M 108 - 10. Through the Exit Doors.mp3 11M 109 - Religious Turn-Offs.mp3 3.3M 11 - US Religious Service Attendance.mp3 9.6M 110 - Explanations for Leaving Religion.mp3 6.9M 111 - Comparing Other Accounts of Disaffiliation.mp3 3.0M 112 - Three Important Minority Traditions.mp3 9.0M 113 - Jewish Millennials.mp3 9.4M 114 - Black Protestant Millennials.mp3 10M 115 - Mormon Millennials.mp3 644K 116 - Conclusion.mp3 7.4M 117 - Conclusion.mp3 3.8M 118 - ''Damned If It Do, Damned If It Don’t''_.mp3 3.7M 119 - Not by Secularization Alone.mp3 2.7M 12 - Average Age of Regular Religious Service Attenders.mp3 11M 120 - And the Future.mp3 20M 121 - Appendix.mp3 768K 122 - End Credits.mp3 1.6M 13 - Knowing God Exists.mp3 2.1M 14 - The Rise of “Not Religious” Americans.mp3 1.9M 15 - Identifying as “Spiritual but Not Religious”.mp3 5.6M 16 - Church Closings.mp3 3.2M 17 - Confidence in Religious Institutions.mp3 2.0M 18 - Ratings of Clergy Honesty and Ethical Standards.mp3 1.6M 19 - Are Survey Measures of Religion Valid Indicators.mp3 11M 20 - Dispatches from the Front by Religion Leaders.mp3 5.4M 21 - Conclusion.mp3 44M 22 - 2. Religion Is Good When.mp3 1.7M 23 - Conclusion.mp3 1.3M 24 - 3. Some Complex Ways Culture Changes.mp3 1.8M 25 - Population Ecology Species Decline.mp3 4.0M 26 - Avalanche Science.mp3 6.2M 27 - Cultural Mismatch.mp3 4.0M 28 - Particulate Matter in the Atmosphere.mp3 4.5M 29 - Delayed, Nonlinear Change.mp3 4.0M 30 - Adoption of Innovation.mp3 1.4M 31 - Crowding Out.mp3 4.9M 32 - Professional Control over Expert Knowledge.mp3 696K 33 - Conclusion.mp3 288K 34 - II Perfect Storms Converging.mp3 2.4M 35 - 4. Long-Term Social Trends.mp3 4.5M 36 - Higher Education for the Masses.mp3 2.8M 37 - Women Entering the Paid Workforce.mp3 14M 38 - The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage and Family.mp3 3.9M 39 - Declining Participation in Face-to-Face Membership Organizations.mp3 12M 40 - Triumphant Mass Consumerism.mp3 11M 41 - Intensifying Expressive Individualism.mp3 7.3M 42 - From Materialist to Postmaterialist Culture.mp3 9.5M 43 - Rise of Emerging Adulthood.mp3 1.1M 44 - Conclusion.mp3 692K 45 - 5. The Developing Religious Environment.mp3 7.7M 46 - Mainline Protestant (Cultural Triumph and) Organizational Decline.mp3 13M 47 - Catholic Organizational Weakening.mp3 23M 48 - ''Moralizing of Religion, Downplaying Transcendence''.mp3 13M 49 - The Rise of Televangelism and the Religious Right.mp3 3.4M 50 - The Spread of Eastern Religions and the New Age Movement.mp3 8.6M 51 - The Ersatz “Warfare of Science and Religion” Narrative.mp3 2.2M 52 - Declining Confidence in Organized Religion.mp3 3.9M 53 - Obsolescence Postponed Institutional Momentum and Diversion in the 1980s.mp3 1.1M 54 - Conclusion.mp3 936K 55 - 6. The 1990s Beginning of the End.mp3 2.8M 56 - End of the Cold War.mp3 26M 57 - Ascendant Neoliberalism Capitalism.mp3 36M 58 - The Digital Revolution.mp3 30M 59 - Pop Postmodernism.mp3 4.0M 60 - Multicultural Education.mp3 5.5M 61 - Millennial Geographical Mobility to Cities.mp3 6.3M 62 - The Rise of Intensive Parenting.mp3 3.7M 63 - “Not Religious” as an Acceptable Identity Option.mp3 2.0M 64 - Conclusion.mp3 856K 65 - 7. The 2000s Obsolescence Assured.mp3 7.5M 66 - September 11, 2001.mp3 12M 67 - The New Atheism.mp3 24M 68 - A Third Sexual Revolution.mp3 12M 69 - LGBTQ+ Mainstreamed.mp3 17M 70 - Religious Pluralism and National Identity.mp3 2.8M 71 - Identity Politics and the Sacralizing of Partisan Politics.mp3 16M 72 - ''Crucibles of Despair The War on Terror, Political Polarization, Global Warming''.mp3 11M 73 - The Disappearing American Dream.mp3 12M 74 - Good Without God.mp3 6.7M 75 - Spiritual but Not Religious.mp3 2.5M 76 - The Continued Rise of the Religious “Nones”.mp3 884K 77 - Conclusion.mp3 1.1M 78 - 8. Religious Self-Destructions.mp3 41M 79 - Religious Scandals.mp3 19M 80 - Evangelical Mission Drift.mp3 12M 81 - Evangelical Me-and-God Spirituality.mp3 12M 82 - Evangelical Biblicist Foundationalist Epistemology.mp3 16M 83 - Evangelical Purity Campaigns.mp3 9.2M 84 - Denominational Culture Wars.mp3 3.4M 85 - Religion as a Tool for Social Control.mp3 7.6M 86 - Congregational Stalwart Power-Hoarding Boomers.mp3 1.7M 87 - Conclusion.mp3 272K 88 - III The Aftermath.mp3 3.2M 89 - 9. Contours of the Millennial Zeitgeist.mp3 9.7M 90 - The Cultural Tenor of Successive Decades.mp3 4.0M 91 - Thematic Tones of the Age.mp3 436K 92 - Toward a Formal Analytics of the Millennial Zeitgeist.mp3 3.3M 93 - Time Duration.mp3 2.8M 94 - Spatial and Social Scope.mp3 1.4M 95 - Narrative Course.mp3 1.8M 96 - Characteristic “Carrying” Groups and Media.mp3 1.3M 97 - Crucial Events.mp3 6.6M 98 - Embodying Public Figures and Celebrities.mp3 2.9M 99 - Symbolic and Artistic Expressions.mp3 176K Christian Smith - Why Religion Went Obsolete.jpg 950M total
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