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Sarah Lane Ritchie
Director of the Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative at the John Templeton Foundation who framed the project, describing its goals and the focus on spiritual yearning and related research dimensions.
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Jan 6, 2026
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The Four Faces of "None": What the Largest Study of Religiously Unaffiliated Americans Reveals
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Ryan Burge, a political scientist who led a landmark study on religiously unaffiliated Americans, joins theologian Tony Jones and Sarah Lane Ritchie, director of the Spiritual Yearning Research Initiative. They reveal insights from the largest survey ever conducted on this demographic. Discover four distinct categories: NINOs, Spiritual But Not Religious, Disengaged, and Zealous Secularists. They dive into surprising findings about happiness levels among atheists and the implications for American religious identity.
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