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An Analysis of the Megachurches and Its Association with the Rise of the 'Nones' in the USA
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Abstract
Religion, as a part of human culture, continues to permeate and influence the lives of human beings. Similarly, the social transformations and growth that people witness also act in the atmosphere of religion. This article takes the contemporary emerging religious phenomenon of the ‘Megachurches’ in the United States as the research object, and attempts to analyse the changes or tendencies in the field of religion that are taking place in today's society in a multicultural setting, and how a modern religion has been born in response to the age, together with the shedding of and confrontation with the previous religious traditions. A notable feature of the new contemporary religions that this article explores through a study and critique of the megachurches is the ‘secularisation of religions’. It is argued that the secularisation of religions is an indication of their development in line with the times and in turn characterises the cultural context of the ‘weakening of religious identity’. This is an essential factor in the birth of contemporary religions and in the inevitable contradictions that arise between them and traditional religions.
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Megachurches, contemporary religions, secularisation, the ‘nones’ in America
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Zhu,Y. (2024). An Analysis of the Megachurches and Its Association with the Rise of the 'Nones' in the USA. Communications in Humanities Research,62,21-26.
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