People talk about having spiritual experiences relating to everything from gardening to sex.
And more and more the spirit of infinite mystery, however it is defined, has found its way into Americans' faith lives. Cooking, business, sex, taking a walk, and even church activities can be spiritual when we let the Infinite breathe into them. In the 1950s, the idea of faith merely meant attending services. Since the mid-1960s or so, spirituality has been associated with the looser idea of seeking beyond traditional religious paths. Wuthnow concedes that the number of people who define their life that way remains small.