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The rising popularity of many new religious and quasi-religious groups in America reflects a larger disarray. Many Americans are abandoning their earlier religious identities, writes Roof, a University of Massachu- setts sociologist.
Surveys the National Opinion Research Center show that religious defection is occurring primarily among the young (the proportions for liberal...