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Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future

How are religious and spiritual changes happening in the United States today? What are the institutions through which spirituality, religion and broader approaches to meaning making are and will continue to be taught, learned and passed across generations?


About this Work

Religious infrastructures are changing in the United States. Fewer people are religiously affiliated, thousands of churches and other local houses of worship are closing, and the shape of religious leadership is increasingly in flux. At the same time, people are organizing around spirituality and broader approaches to meaning-making in new ways inside and outside of existing organizations. 

This project brings scholars, educators, religious leaders, journalists and students together to advance research about what we are calling the spiritual infrastructure of the future. We will document this chapter in religious innovation and ensure that scholars, educators and religious leaders are prepared to lead in the midst of changes transforming institutions that have carried these ideas and practices forward in the United States for hundreds of years.

How We're Exploring the Question

This project has three parts: scholarly research, public-facing programming, and building pipelines to professional leadership. Learn more below.

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