Decline of American 1990s secularism

In 2008, the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) reported:

“  |  The 1990s was the decade when the “secular boom” occurred – each year 1.3 million more adult Americans joined the ranks of the Nones. Since 2001 the annual increase has halved to 660,000 a year...

Regarding belief in the divine, most Nones are neither atheists nor theists but rather agnostics and deists (59%) and perhaps best described as skeptics.[1]

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In 2012, Baylor University indicated that a significant amount of American nondenominational church members are checking "unaffiliated" or "no religion" on surveys.[2] Nondenominational Christians, who tend to be conservative and creationists, are the fastest growing segment of the religious population.[3]

## See also[edit]

* Decline of atheism
* Global atheism

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ Press: Americans Who Don’t Identify with a Religion No Longer a Fringe Group
2. ↑ http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/research-shows-american.html
3. ↑ http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/research-shows-american.html