Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera on the Challenge of Rallying the Nones

The Nones are on the rise! When asked about their religious affiliation, year after year, more and more Americans are choosing "none of the above." The number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, which includes atheists and agnostics, has been rocketing up over the past couple of decades, and today these Nones make up about one-third of the American population. But they're not matching their religious counterparts in terms of political organization or cultivating tightly bonded communities, so what's going on? In this episode of Point of Inquiry, Free Inquiry editor Paul Fidalgo talks to political scientist Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Political Research director and Managing Partner at Socioanalitica Research and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Humanist Studies. His article "The Boundaries of Secularism: Who's in? Who's Out?" is featured in the October/November 2023 issue of Free Inquiry , and he has some important observations about the rise of the nones and what's preventing the nonreligious from becoming a social and political force to be reckoned with.

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This episode is 54:08 long.

This episode was published on Oct 18, 2023.

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