We're older now, we've moved into a different stage. And with age you feel these things deeper, more weighty. Beyond that, they don't distinguish. People borrow ideas from different traditions, then add them to whatever religion they're used to. But they don't want anything to do with organized religion.
Churches survive, obviously.
But the ones that thrive do so by trying to tune into this rootless questing and harness it, as advertisers tried to co-opt the '60s counterculture. For many churches, surviving means adopting some of the drifters' lingo. These days, the strictest evangelical church overflows with 12-step classes. Hidebound institutions bubble with self-help. Even religions imported by waves of immigrants eventually succumb to the therapeutic fever.