WOF 322: Strange Rites
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Friends, today we discuss an interesting new book titled​​ Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton. Burton argues that while younger generations are supposedly the most secular according to surveys, they’re actually notably religious—it’s just that they have adopted strange new religions. She claims today's Americans are embracing a kaleidoscopic panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures, from astrology and witchcraft to SoulCycle and the alt-right. In search of the deep and the real, they are finding meaning, purpose, ritual, and communities in ever-newer, ever-stranger ways.
A listener asks, if religious faith is based on our response to the revealing God, how do we reconcile this with the plurality of religions?
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| 0:00.0 | Some search for meaning, capital M, |
| 0:04.4 | for purpose, capital P, for community, capital C, |
| 0:09.4 | for ritual, capital R, right? |
| 0:12.0 | So not just, you know, like the ritual is associated |
| 0:14.4 | with some club that I belong to, |
| 0:15.8 | or the purpose associated with, you know, |
| 0:18.8 | being a member of some society. |
| 0:20.9 | But these things in their pure, unconditioned form, |
| 0:26.0 | people are still looking for them. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. |
| 0:38.1 | People are disappearing from churches. |
| 0:40.6 | We know that with great certainty, |
| 0:42.6 | but are they becoming more secular |
| 0:44.6 | or perhaps more religious? |
| 0:46.4 | Well, today we're gonna discuss a provocative new book |
| 0:48.8 | exploring the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality, |
| 0:52.8 | what the author calls strange rights. |
| 0:55.4 | These are new remixed religions that have drawn millions |
| 0:58.4 | of adherence. |
| 0:59.5 | What are they? |
| 1:00.4 | How should we engage them as Catholics? |
| 1:02.4 | That's what we'll be talking about today |
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