Seculosity

<p>David Zahl's popular and enlightening exploration of our unintended replacement religions--career parenting technology food politics and romance--is new in paperback now updated and expanded with a chapter on celebrity.</p><p>In our striving we are chasing a sense of <i>enoughness</i>. But it remains ever out of reach and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. <i>Seculosity</i> takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American performancism and its cousins highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve and he does so in a way that's at points playful personal and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.</p><p>New edition includes a bound-in small group discussion guide perfect book clubs church groups and more.</p>