{"id":75187,"date":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/sacred-heart-university-professor-honors-colloquium-guest-to-lecture-on-decline-of-participation-in-organized-religion-in-u-s\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:00:00","slug":"sacred-heart-university-professor-honors-colloquium-guest-to-lecture-on-decline-of-participation-in-organized-religion-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/sacred-heart-university-professor-honors-colloquium-guest-to-lecture-on-decline-of-participation-in-organized-religion-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Heart University professor, Honors Colloquium guest to lecture on decline of participation in organized religion in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 6, 2019 — A professor of religious studies at Sacred Heart University, Christel Manning has spent the past decade studying people who leave their religion. She will be visiting the 溏心vlog免费B站 Nov. 19<\/strong> as part of the \u201cReligion in America\u201d Honors Colloquium<\/a>, where she will discuss a group of people termed the \u201cnones,\u201d or people unaffiliated with any organized religion. Her research aims to discover what these people are turning to as they exit the sphere of conventional religion, and how this will affect the future of religion in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The lecture, \u201cThe Nones: America\u2019s fastest growing religion,\u201d will take place Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road, on the Kingston Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed<\/a> and archived.<\/p>\n

According to Manning, Americans, particularly the young, are leaving organized religion in record numbers. There are now more \u201cnones\u201d than Catholics in the U.S. population, and more than a third of millennials, born between 1980 and 1994, say they have no religion. This talk will explore why and where they are turning. Manning will examine what \u201cnones\u201d believe, what they are passing on to their children, and how this change in religious culture will affect the future of religion in America.<\/p>\n

Manning\u2019s book, Losing our Religion,<\/em> was rated one of the top ten religion titles of 2015 and received the 2016 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is co-editor of Organized Secularism in the United States<\/em>, a collection of essays about the atheist and free-thinkers movement, and a contributor to New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging<\/em>. Her current research focuses on how non-religious individuals find meaning as they approach the end of life.<\/p>\n

Lauren Poirier, an intern in the Marketing and Communications Department at 溏心vlog免费B站 and public relations and English major, wrote this press release.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 6, 2019 — A professor of religious studies at Sacred Heart University, Christel Manning has spent the past decade studying people who leave their religion. She will be visiting the 溏心vlog免费B站 Nov. 19 as part of the \u201cReligion in America\u201d Honors Colloquium, where she will discuss a group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}