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Freethinkers Book Club: Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America

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Freethinkers Book Club

Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America

By Stephen Bullivant

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Hosted by: Karen C.

Discussion Questions

Nonverts includes personal interviews of nonverts, who were formerly religious and no longer are. Did any of these stories particularly resonate with you? Were they relatable?
The book presents survey data pertaining to this trend. Was there anything that was surprising or new to you?
Bullivant attributes the below three factors to the rise of Nones/Noverts. Do you agree or are there other factors equally or more impactful?
- The New Atheism is able to position itself as patriotic (as opposed to unpatriotic) after the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s.
- Appearance of the Internet
- People are becoming more comfortable being nonreligious because there are more nones.
Bullivant came from a non-religious family and converted to Catholicism at the age of 38. Do you view the book Nonverts as an objective study/account from a researcher/sociologist, or one that is biased by a religious perspective/objective.

Please feel free to join if you have not read the book, but if so, please take a look at one or more of the below resources.

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