Spiritual but not Religious
I came across two articles on that theme today.

The first is a WSJ book review: Do-It-Yourself Religion: A history of spirituality from Emerson to Oprah--and a defense of it.Here are some excerpts:

One of the grand conceits of the Spiritual Left is that each of us can (and should) invent our own spirituality, which to be authentic must also be unborrowed. But the meditation techniques and yoga postures so loved among spirituality's champions did not spring forth fully formed from the genius of any American. They were cultivated over millennia by Hindus and Buddhists in India and Tibet and Japan, who were themselves sustained in those practices by institutions and clerics and everything else that Emerson loved to hate....

Spirituality is not so much an alternative to religion as a part of it. Should the prophesy of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ever come to pass--that "altar, church, priest and ritual will pass away"--spirituality would go with them.

Next, we have this LA Times piece: Doubt Is Their Co-Pilot: More Americans are shunning traditional religions and turning to upstart faiths such as Universism, whose sole dogma is uncertainty.

Why is it that doubt, not conviction, is now seen as a virtue?