Linda Mercadante

Biographic Data

ID1115202
NAMELinda Mercadante
GIVEN NAMESLinda
FAMILY NAMEMercadante
SIGNATUREMERCADANTE L
AFFILIATIONSMethodist Theological School in Ohio
ORCID0000-0001-7790-0937
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Clergy Becoming Spiritual but not Religious

    Open AccessLinda MercadanteARTICLEOpen Theology2024

    Changes in beliefs among former clergy, who have now left the ministry, may add an extra dimension to research on church decline. In fact, there are changes in belief among thirty former clergy interviewed for this study that show remarkable similarity to the beliefs of previously interviewed non-religious “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) persons in the author’s qualitative research, as reported in Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of …

  • Spiritual but not religious (SBNRs) and theists encounter spirit tech

    Linda MercadanteARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2023

  • The Spiritual Turn

    Open AccessLinda MercadanteARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2023

    Journal Article The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity. By Galen Watts Get access The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity By Galen Watts Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 pages. $100.00 (hardcover), $99.99 (e-book). Linda Mercadante Linda Mercadante Methodist Theological School in Ohio [email protected] Search for other works b…

  • The hard way

    Open AccessLinda MercadanteARTICLEDialog2020

    In order to model civility, progressive Christians must go against the grain and take “the hard way.”

  • Does Alcoholics Anonymous Help Grow the Spiritual but not Religious Movement

    Linda MercadanteARTICLEImplicit Religion2020

    Both the 12 Step movement of Alcoholics Anonymous and the spiritual-but-not-religious (SBNR) movement insist there is an important difference between spirituality and religion. Briefly, it is claimed that spirituality is personal and heart-felt, while religion consists of human-created doctrines, institutions, and outward rituals. However, the two routes to that definition differ in significant ways. For AA the dichotomy has been functional to al…

  • Spiritual Struggles of Nones and 'Spiritual but Not Religious' (SBNRs)

    Open AccessLinda MercadanteARTICLEReligions2020Cited by: 7References: 45

    Spiritual struggles are a distinct problem which have implications for psychological, social, emotional and physical health. They are not unique to religious persons; instead both the religiously unaffiliated (Nones) and those who call themselves "Spiritual but not Religious," (SBNR) have struggles with existential issues common to all humans, and which can be identified as "spiritual". Nones are a very diverse group and different types of Nones …

  • How Does it Fit? Multiple Religious Belonging, Spiritual but not Religious, and The Dances of Universal Peace

    Open AccessLinda MercadanteARTICLEOpen Theology2017

    Are people who call themselves “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR) actually practicing multiple religious belonging (MRB)? Or are “multiple religious participation” or “multiple religious involvement” better designations? This article suggests that “multiple religious orientation” fits their practices better. But a subset of the SBNR movement, The Dances of Universal Peace, is used as a case study in straddling the boundaries between MRB and SBN…

  • Sin and Addiction

    Open AccessLinda MercadanteARTICLEReligions2015References: 1

    The addiction recovery metaphor of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the sin/salvation metaphor of Protestant heritage have a lot more in common than people realize. On the surface, of course, it seems that the addiction recovery process is quite the opposite of what is assumed to be a religious approach to addiction. Many assume that religion takes a moralistic or judgmental attitude to addiction, focusing on intentional wrong-doing, lack of will po…

  • Belief without Borders

    Linda Mercadante, Linda A MercadanteBOOKBelief Without Borders Inside The…2014

    “Nones”—those without religious affiliation—now outnumber even the largest Protestant denominations in America. Many of these “nones” self-identify as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR). This book represents one of the first qualitative research studies of SBNRs, analyzing about one hundred in-depth interviews, as well as many more informal conversations, site visits, and focus groups. In it, spiritual explorers describe their journeys, unpack …

  • Italian-American Immigrants and Religious Conversions

    Open AccessLinda Mercadante, Linda A MercadanteARTICLEPastoral Psychology2010References: 3

  • Victims and Sinners

    Katherine Alton, Linda Mercadante et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research1998