Draft:Religious Residue

The term "religious residue," is used to describe the psychological tendency for religious beliefs and emotional responses to persist after people de-identify from religion which is also known as a part of the process of faith deconstruction. This phenomenon was discovered by psychologist Daryl Van Tongeren, whose cross-cultural empirical work found that religious behaviors, emotions, and processes linger after people leave their faith. This reaction among formerly religious individuals is distinguish from those who were never religious or still religious. This subset of formerly religious people can be identified as religious "dones."