The nones are alright
Subtitle: a new generation of believers, seekers, and those in between
By: Kaya Oakes
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Maryknoll
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781626981577
Subjects: Non-church-affiliated people; Evangelicalism; Church attendance; Catholic Church; Church membership
Description: Almost a third of American Millennials (not to mention their Gen-X elders) have chosen to live a life free from institutional religion. Many of those who do remain in the denominations and faith expressions in which they were raised tend to practice their faith in ways rather more syncretic and casual than previous generations. But beyond the surprising and puzzling statistics, don't these “seekers” and “nones” have their own stories to tell? Kaya Oakes, herself a “revert” to the Catholic faith, doesn't just write from the perspective of her own encounters with faith and its absence, but also introduces the reader to a broad range of voices and experiences, interviewing dozens of young Americans on how and why they practice (or don't practice) their faith. She also explores specifically how a Catholic generation of young seekers is experiencing, and changing, the Catholic Church in the United States. “The future of faith,” she concludes, “remains a mystery. But isn't faith also a mystery?” (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The seekers; title: Nothing from nothing: the atheist nones; title: Belonging without believing; title: Liminal faith; title: When women don't worship; title: Queering the nones; title: Excursus: among the Catholics; title: Boomerangs; title: Sex, marriage, and the unholy mess; title: Catholic roots, broken branches; title: The binding: on being Catholic in exile; title: Guerilla faith; title: Jumping the fence.