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with contributions from Daniel B. Wood

Recently, the magazine CrossPoint had a wide-ranging interview on spirituality with Robert Wuthnow, professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.

Acknowledging that the quest for spirituality is worldwide — although it is taking different forms in different countries — Professor Wuthnow also affirmed that it is affecting all major religious groups in the United States.

He went on: "What cuts across all of these traditions is a very strong emphasis on spiritual experience. By spiritual experience, I mean, people wanting to feel that they have related to God through an emotionally moving kind of experience. People do this in church, and during prayer and meditation, but they also have these experiences in nature and among family and friends. So the spiritual search then is sometimes a way to duplicate those experiences on a more regular basis and to find a way to interpret and understand those experiences."

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