Don't forget politics. As traditional religion has retreated Politics has taken on a greater role - politics as tribal identity. Good article here: https://www.

Don't forget politics. As traditional religion has retreated Politics has taken on a greater role - politics as tribal identity. Good article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america-politics-religion/618072/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america... "The notion that all deeply felt conviction is sublimated religion is not new. Abraham Kuyper, a theologian who served as the prime minister of the Netherlands at the dawn of the 20th century, when the nation was in the early throes of secularization, argued that all strongly held ideologies were effectively faith-based, and that no human being could survive long without some ultimate loyalty. If that loyalty didn’t derive from traditional religion, it would find expression through secular commitments, such as nationalism, socialism, or liberalism. The political theorist Samuel Goldman calls this “the law of the conservation of religion”: In any given society, there is a relatively constant and finite supply of religious conviction. What varies is how and where it is expressed."