Featured Spirituality

This report helps congregations understand the spectrum of spiritual identity in the U.S. and how spiritual identity affects people’s community and political engagement. Published in 2020, the findings are based on research that the Fetzer Institute conducted to understand people’s intrinsic spirituality and to help build a spiritual foundation for a loving world.



To research spiritual beliefs in the U.S., the Fetzer Institute reached out to people inside and outside religious institutions through focus groups, in-depth interviews, and a national survey. The findings are organized around guiding questions, such as “ How do people describe spirituality for themselves?” and “ How does a sense of accountability inform the way people connect to inner spirituality and outer action?”