Newsweek finds spirituality

The cover of Newsweek this week proclaims "Spirituality in America". The issue contains a fairly lengthy article titled In Search of the Spiritual. From the article: "Americans are looking for personal, ecstatic experiences of God, and, according to our poll, they don't much care what the neighbors are doing."

Some questions of interest from the related poll:

Which of the following best describes you?

Spiritual but not religious: 24%

Religious but not spiritual: 9%

Religious and spiritual: 55%

Neither religious nor spiritual: 8%

Don't know: 4%

How important is spirituality in your daily life?

Very important: 57%

Somewhat: 27%

Not too important: 7%

Not at all important: 7%

Don't know: 2%

Americans say they do the following things daily:

Prayer: 64%

Meditation: 29%

Read the Bible/Koran/other sacred text: 20%