A View from the Back Pew
A View from the Back Pew
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- £10.99
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- £10.99
Publisher Description
.Engages with the taboo questions of Christianity as investigative reportage, exploring the "mysteries of faith"..Is America becoming preoccupied with religion?.In a country with a tradition of keeping matters of creed private, we are now seeing religion in the headlines almost daily, while ironically, escalating numbers of Americans are abandoning organized religion altogether..A recent Pew survey of Americans show: 91% believe in God, 44% have switched religions, 71% of 18-30 year-olds are spiritual but not religious and the Catholic Church estimates at least one third of Catholics are lapsed..We are a nation under God, a country of believers it seems, but one undergoing a collective shift in our allegiance to organized religion. But, before the individual shifts they are aided by looking at what they were taught to believe in the first place..A View from the Back Pew: God, Religion & Our Personal Quest for Truth investigates the mysteries of faith in a...