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  • People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to conservative churches, which, for all their social benightedness, nevertheless do present their congregations with a different view of reality. Second, they are going to Asian religions. Third, they are going to the New Age, which when I'm feeling cynical I refer to as "New Age frivolity," because some of it is rather flaky.

    "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview With Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.