How Is Spirituality Expanding Beyond Religion?

Spirituality is declining in the United States if you focus on religious affiliation, but that isn’t the whole story according to Morgan Shipley, associate professor of religious studies at Michigan State University.
A recent Pew Research Center survey reports that 28% of U.S. adults say they are religiously unaffiliated. By digging a little deeper, Shipley finds the religiously unaffiliated, sometimes called the “nones,” are a diverse group of people often with a broader perspective of spirituality.
Here Shipley explores the ways spirituality and identity are expanding and becoming more inclusive.
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ABOUT MORGAN SHIPLEY
Michigan State University Associate Professor Morgan Shipley explores changes in spirituality, belonging, and religious identity through his research and as a follow up to his book “Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America.”
In his role as the Foglio Endowed Chair of Spirituality at MSU, Shipley also offers opportunities for the MSU community and larger public to explore the meanings and applications of spirituality in the contemporary world through lectures, talks, workshops, and experiential events. MORE: people.cal.msu...