ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a religious drifter and differentiate drifters from other religiously unaffiliated men. Religious drifters may lack meaning in their life and express disappointment, sadness, and discontent without a spiritual home. The chapter suggests that mental health professionals ways to assess the client’s religious and spiritual journey to identify their narrative about drifting. It investigates possible connections between their masculinity ideology and religious non-affiliation, and implements clinical techniques that explore the various possible ways of being meaningfully involved in a religious community, if the client so desires. The religious and spiritual beliefs and practices of men who are unaffiliated were examined in a 2014 Pew survey. First, the survey found that men who were unaffiliated were mostly under age 50, with about equal percentages in the 18–29 year old age group and 30–49 year old group. The majority were White and almost equal percentages of married and never married men.
