ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how university social spaces function as a cultural feeder for the rise of the Spiritual but Not Religious (SBNR) movement. It does so by centering the analysis on the comparative study of religion and how it helped lay the intellectual and social foundations in the 1960s and 1970s for what would eventually become the SBNR demographic. It then moves on to linked social spaces (like the hospital), offering reflections on what such social spaces, in conjunction with comparativism, might mean for the future of being SBNR.
