Symbolic Pollution and Religious Change: The Religious Imaginary of Anglo-Canadian Spiritual but Not Religious Millennials.
In this article, we advance a cultural sociological approach to religious change that foregrounds the role of symbolic pollution and shifting religious imaginaries. Leveraging interviews with 50 Anglo-Canadian Millennials who identify as spiritual but not religious , and ethnographic research at thr...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Religion Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 1 - 30 |
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Spring2026
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