[Hac-announce] August 2022 Book Discussion: "Strange Rites" by Tara Isabella Burton

[kvngough at aol.com]

Our August 2022 book is Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton. The discussion will take place Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 2:30 pm at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. (USNH COVID policy can be found at the HAC Meetup.)

>From Amazon:
While rejecting traditional worship in unprecedented numbers, today's Americans are embracing a kaleidoscopic panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures – from astrology and witchcraft to SoulCycle and the alt-right…Faith is experiencing not a decline but a Renaissance. Disillusioned with organized religion and political establishments alike, more and more Americans are seeking out spiritual paths driven by intuition, not institutions. In Strange Rites, religious scholar and commentator Tara Isabella Burton visits with the techno-utopians of Silicon Valley; Satanists and polyamorous communities, witches from Bushwick, wellness junkies and social justice activists and devotees of Jordan Peterson, proving Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it.
"A bracing tour through the myriad forms of bespoke spiritualism and makeshift quasi-religions springing up across America."– The Wall Street Journal
Kevin (& Paula)
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