Decline of American 1990s secularism

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

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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

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