Her parents took her and her sister to nondenominational megachurches that adhered to a lot of Baptist and Pentecostal ideals, she said.
As a kid, she loved the way every service felt “like a concert,” filled with music and light, and she made loads of friends through church.
“So I didn’t want to associate with that kind of evangelicalism.”Draut is representative of an emerging trend: young women leaving church “in unprecedented numbers,” as Daniel Cox and Kelsey Eyre Hammond wrote in April for Cox’s newsletter, American Storylines.
A new survey reveals that the pattern has now reversed.”While over the past half-century, Americans of all ages, genders and backgrounds have moved away from organized religion, as I wrote in a series on religious nones — atheists, agnostics and nothing-in-particulars — young women are now disaffiliating from organized religion in greater percentages than young men.
And women pushing back on the beliefs and practices of several faiths, particularly different Christian traditions, is something I have been reading about more and more.
Persons:
Alexis Draut, nondenominational, Draut, ”, Donald Trump, Daniel Cox, Kelsey Eyre Hammond, Cox, Hammond, we’ve
Organizations:
Berry College, Survey Center, American Enterprise Institute
Locations:
Kentucky, Georgia