Alan Wolfe in last month's Atlantic usedthis graphto demonstrate that the United States is easily the most religious of the most wealthy nations.But he also arguesthat Marx and Weber were not as wrong as we might now think, that secularism -- and certainly detachment from churches -- is growing in the United States and other once religious societies such as Spain, Ireland and South Korea. In this sense the U.S. becoming like Europe is more likely than the reverse.

John T. McGreevy is the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame.

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