Progressive Spirit

Joseph Baker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at East Tennessee State University.   His latest book, American Secularism:  Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems, co-authored with Buster G. Smith, explores the rise of secularity in the United States.  Why are more and more people identifying as "non-religious" and what are the forces shaping this change?   Religion and secularism from a sociological point of view.