The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to ...

Aimed at the Statistician:
This book was a bit of a disappointment to me since it is long on reporting research statistics and analyzing survey results and short on philosophical or cultural discussion. It fairly well chronicles the shift in some demographic groups from "religion" to "spirituality" but it does so from a rather detached, clinical standpoint. If you are on board with the new spirituality and are looking to read an apology for your change or, if you are deeply opposed to such a transition and consider yourself an unbendging traditionalist in religion, you probably won't find what you're looking for in this book. North American readers should be advised also that the focus of the study is a demographic survey of an English town in the U.K.

Fascinating, but too much research for the general reader:
The book attempts to study the rise of spirituality through the in depth study of one community, its different "religious" and "spiritual" practices and their change over time. For those who are just interested in the general theory-- that "subjectavism" has caused the attractiveness of new pratices -- the detailed information about the specific community is a bit cumbersome, but probably necessary for specialists who need to be convinced that the thesis is true.