Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What to Do about It (New and Revised)

David Zahl's popular and enlightening exploration of our unintended replacement religions—career, parenting, technology, food, politics, and romance—is new in paperback, now updated and expanded with a chapter on celebrity.

In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and ...