Ebook: Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: the None Zone

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE Mark Silk; INTRODUCTION-Patterns of the Past. Prospects for the Future: Religion in the None Zone Patricia O'Connell Killen; Religious Affiliation in the Pacific Northwest and the ation- Religious Self-Identification and Adherents Claimed by Religious Groups. National and Regional Comparisons; CHAPTER ONE-Surveying the Religious Landscape: Historical Trends and Current Patterns in Oregon. Washington, and Alaska Patricia O'Connell Killen and Mark A. Shibley with assistance from Kellee Boyer and Kellie A. Riley.;When asked their religious identification, more people answer 'none' in the Pacific Northwest than in any other region of the United States. But this does not mean that the region's religious institutions are without power or that Northwesterners who do attend no place of worship are without spiritual commitments. With no dominant denomination, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, adherents of Pacific Rim religious traditions, indigenous groups, spiritual environmentalists, and secularists must vie or sometimes must cooperate with each other to address the regions' pressing eco.