Dr. Christian Smith — Religious Decline and Cultural Re-Enchantment: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Religious Field

📅 Thu, Nov 12, 2026 · 7:30 PM📍 St. Jerome's University, Notre Dame Chapel, Waterloo, ON🏠 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3Price not listed

Please join us for this event where Professor Christian Smith will share insights from his forthcoming book Occulture: The New Face of American Spirituality which will be released in early 2027 by Oxford University Press. In the book, Smith and collaborators Matthew Coetzee and Bridget Ritz argue that the last several decades have witnessed a sea change in American culture as traditional religion has declined significantly. What has taken its place, however, is not widespread secularism, but a growing interest in magic, spirituality, alternative healing practices, neopaganism, psychic powers,

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