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The Deturching of the United States
Sri Lane: We don't have a clear declension narrative in American history. What you see with them is this introduction of ideas coming out of the European Enlightenment. He says there was a particular time early in American history where church affiliation was perhaps at its very lowest. Sri Lane: And until what eventually, which we can talk about as well, eventually the second Great Awakening would come,. these were considered to be very godless places and where de-chirching was just assumed to be the norm.