In each large metropolis in the US and Britain there are buildings – usually fairly magnificent – that have been erected by Christian Scientists.
In each large metropolis in the US and Britain there are buildings – usually fairly magnificent – that have been erected by Christian Scientists. However a lot of them are actually places of work and residences, as a result of this as soon as thriving and really rich denomination is just about lifeless.
On this week’s Holy Smoke podcast, I speak to Jon Anderson, an skilled on non secular and political sects, concerning the collapse of Christian Science – whose followers included Joyce Grenfell and Doris Day – and the scary classes it holds for immediately’s mainstream religions.
There’s already an entire graveyard of Protestant denominations filling up in America and Europe. May the extra standard bits of the Anglican and Catholic Church buildings in the future find yourself there? What about Reform and Liberal Judaism?
And why are some – to our eyes – fundamentalist or unique non secular actions bucking the pattern? Latin Mass Catholicism, Haredi Judaism and certainly Mormonism are all busy successful adherents. Do they share a recipe for non secular survival?
It’s an eye-opening dialogue. Don’t miss it!