CCT Dine & Discuss - The Rise of the Nones

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The Village Spot

3150 Village Walk Circle

Naples, FL 34109

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The event will start at 6:00 pm.

Speaker: Charles E. Kupchella, PhD

Topic: The Rise of the Nones: Declining Religious Affiliation and Participation

The religious landscape of the USA is and has been changing rapidly. In Pew Research Surveys conducted in the last few years: 63% of American adults described themselves as Christians -- down 14 percentage points from a decade earlier. The percentage of people who described their religious identity as "atheist," "agnostic" or "nothing-in-particular," was 29% -- up from 17% in 2009. Some mainline churches have lost 40 percent or more of their members. While enrollment in Catholic schools has been growing in much of the global south, the situation is different in developed countries. In the United States in particular, enrollment has been declining for most of the last 50 years. Why has this been happening and what are the implications?

About the Speaker: Charles E. Kupchella, PhD served as President of the University of North Dakota from 1999 to 2008. He served as a Professor of Biology at five Universities and is a past-president of the American Association for Cancer Education, the Kentucky Academy of Science and the Kentucky Association for Environmental Education. He holds a PhD in Biology from St. Bonaventure University and an undergraduate degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. K is the author of > 50 articles in medical and other scientific periodicals – also the author of eight books on varied topics as cancer, the special senses, the environment and other aspects of human biology. His most recent books: The Tree Shack: A Story about the Foundations of Morality and the Origins of Humankind, 2014, and Morality: How it Evolved and how it was Hijacked and Confounded by Religion, 2019. “Our First Civil War: A Novel,” 2022.

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