Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America

Written by Stephen Bullivant

Narrated by Liam Gerrard

An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious

The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion. The great majority of these religious "nones" also say that they used to belong to a religion but no longer do. These are the nonverts: think "converts," but from having religion to having none. There are currently about fifty-nine million of them in the United States.

Nonverts explores who they are, and why they joined the rising tide of the ex-religious. One of world's leading experts on contemporary atheism and nonreligiosity, sociologist and theologian Stephen Bullivant draws on dozens of interviews, original analysis of high-quality survey data, and a wealth of cutting-edge studies, to present an entertaining and insightful exploration of America's ex-religious landscape. Bullivant crisscrosses the country, talking to everyone from ex-Mormons in Utah to ex-Catholics in Pennsylvania, from ex-Evangelicals in Georgia to ex-Muslims in California, showing not only what they have in common but also how the traditions they left behind continue to shape them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765060445

Reviews for Nonverts

[Robert Altschuler · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As someone who was raised (and still is) a Christian, the secularization of the United States was presented to me as an apocalyptic event. If it wasn't a herald of the rapture, then it at least signaled the country's imminent collapse.

Listening to this book was a sobering and cathartic experience. I can't recommend it enough.