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Skateboarding's spiritual side -- skaters find meaning in falls and breaking the monotony of urban life

  • Written by Terry Shoemaker, Lecturer in Religious Studies, Arizona State University
imageA skateboarder attempts a jump. MoMo Productions/Collections Stone via Getty Images

Over the last decade the numbers of those identifying as “Spiritual But Not Religious,” or SBNR, have continued to increase. In 2017, Pew Research Center found that a quarter of Americans identified as SBNR.

Sociologist Wade Roof Clark argues that the...

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