Post-Secular Lab

Join Sacred Design Lab co-founder Casper ter Kuile and sociologist Amy Traver speak in this interview with sociologist of religion Nancy Ammerman. Together, they discuss how best to understand Spiritual-But-Not-Religious people, the importance of community in spiritual life, what conditions make transcendence likely, and what Prof. Ammerman thinks is coming next in American religion.

This article is critical as it presents the debate in the 1970s on black theology in the diaspora, rooted in the civil rights movement and social justice of African Americans vis-à-vis black theology in the continent invested in decolonization and indigenization – showing that spiritual innovations are an ongoing practice in communities.