# Diana Butler Bass **Summary.** Diana Butler Bass is an American historian of Christianity and an author and speaker who writes about religion, spirituality, and cultural change in the United States. She holds a PhD in religious studies from Duke University and works largely within mainline and progressive Christian conversations. ## Public record Her books include *Christianity for the Rest of Us*, *Christianity After Religion* (2012), *Grateful* (2018), and *Freeing Jesus*. Much of her writing examines how American Christianity is shifting, why people leave institutional churches, and how faith and practice change across generations. She is a frequent public commentator and speaker on trends in American religious life. ## Why she matters in this wiki Bass gives historical and sociological framing to the movement toward progressive and post-evangelical Christianity that this wiki documents. Her analysis of church decline and changing practice connects to the wiki's themes of deconstruction and reformation of faith community. ## Related - [[Progressive Christianity]]