Already there is a strong post-Christian religious tendency that’s visible in various places in our culture but hasn’t taken on a fully coherent, culture-shaping form. It might usefully be described as an inchoate neo-paganism—meaning not the literal worship of Osiris or Odin (or not necessarily), but a general belief in the immanent divine, in a supernatural reality that’s interwoven with the material world rather than standing outside it as a Creator God.

