Joseph Baker\xa0is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at East Tennessee State University. \xa0 His latest book,\xa0American Secularism: \xa0Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems, co-authored with Buster G. Smith, explores the rise of secularity in the United States. \xa0Why are more and more people identifying as "non-religious" and what are the forces shaping this change? \xa0 Religion and secularism from a sociological point of view.