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For decades, American religiosity has been in decline, with each generation abandoning religion in greater numbers.

Niluper says she and her husband faced hostility from Chinese state officials over their religiosity - her husband was an avid reader of religious texts.

But if it has any lasting value, that may rest in its role as a loathsome parable of America’s tortured obsession with human bodies, ground into a sausage of fear and religiosity.

I initially winced at the religiosity of it.

In some ways, it mirrors the influential belief systems that underpin religiosity.