Casper ter Kuile

Ter Kuile studied at Harvard Divinity School and reported, with a colleague, that people were meeting the needs religion used to serve through CrossFit, knitting groups and podcast fandoms instead. The Power of Ritual takes that seriously and proposes deliberate practice: reading a book the way scripture is read, eating with attention, keeping a sabbath with no religion attached. He is not arguing that anybody should believe anything, which is the objection some readers have to it.