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Cover of Caught in the Pulpit by Daniel C. Dennett & Linda LaScola

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Caught in the Pulpit

Daniel C. Dennett & Linda LaScola

Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola report interviews with clergy who no longer believe important parts of what their roles require them to teach. Expanded from an initial pilot study, the book explores secrecy, vocational identity, financial dependence, family and congregational expectations, routes into ministry, and the difficult choices available to closeted or former nonbelieving clergy.

Psychological / academicDemanding280 pages

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Church Refugees

Josh Packard; Ashleigh Hope

Packard and Hope report on people who remain spiritually engaged while leaving congregational institutions they experience as constraining or ineffective.

Psychological / AcademicApproachable240 pages

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Empty the Pews

Chrissy Stroop

Edited by Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O'Neal, this anthology presents multiple paths out of religious communities, including intellectual, moral, political, gendered, and traumatic rupture.

Secular / HumanistModerate282 pages

Cover of Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper.

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Unfollow

Megan Phelps-Roper

Megan Phelps-Roper traces how certainty, family love, social media encounters, and moral contradiction interacted in her departure from Westboro Baptist Church. It gives the leaving shelf a rare insider account of both belonging and rupture.

Secular / HumanistApproachable304 pages