In his book The Future of Faith, Harvey Cox says that the Age of Belief ended in 2005, when the new European Union declined to mention “Christian” anywhere in its constitution.4 People have voted with their feet. Doctrines and creeds are no longer enough to keep faith alive. Instead, the faithful seek practical guidance and direct experience of the sacred. The new age we are living in is the Age of the Spirit, Cox says, already well under way in the global South.
