The changing landscape of American religious life

“The coming marginalization” © 2010 Religion News Service. Used with permission. December 23, 2010

It used to be that Americans focused their religious lives around brick-and-mortar structures—churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples—for worship, study, and assembly. . . . 

Inside those sacred spaces with their steeples or domes or stained-glass windows, Americans followed the men—it was nearly always men—who donned colorful vestments as a visual validation of their religious authority.

Not anymore.

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