Robert C. Fuller (born 1952) is the Caterpillar Professor of Religious Studies at Bradley University.
[5] Fuller is particularly interested in "unchurched" spirituality in America and metaphysical healing, including mesmerism and homeopathy.
Despite declining church membership in America, most Americans believe in some form of higher spiritual power.
[7] He argues in Spiritual, but not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America (2001) that "[a]lternative medicines almost invariably promulgate alternative worldviews."
Most of those drawn to such systems—New Thought, spirit guides, Swedenborgianism, Theosophy, Transcendentalism[8]—are middle class and physically healthy.