Editing Deconstruction (section)

===Faith===
{{see also-text|[[Faith deconstruction]]|[[Positive deconstruction]]}}
The term "[[deconstructing faith]]" has been used to describe processes of critically examining one's religious beliefs with the possibility of rejecting them, taking individual responsibility for beliefs acquired from others, or reconstructing more nuanced or mature faith. This use of the term has been particularly prominent in American Evangelical Christianity in the 2020s. Author [[Nakedpastor|David Hayward]] said he "co-opted the term" ''deconstruction'' because he was reading the work of Derrida at the time his religious beliefs came into question.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Garrison |first1=Becky |date=9 September 2020 |title=Doubt, Marriage, and the NakedPastor |work=[[The Humanist]] |url=https://thehumanist.com/arts_entertainment/books/doubt-marriage-and-the-nakedpastor/ |access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref> Others had earlier used the term "faith deconstruction" to describe similar processes, and theologian [[James W. Fowler]] articulated a similar concept as part of his faith stages theory.<ref name="Jamieson">{{cite book |last1=Jamieson |first1=Alan |title=A Churchless Faith: Faith journeys beyond the churches |date=2002 |publisher=SPCK |location=London |isbn=0-281-05465-7 |pages=68–74, 77, 89, 108–25, 126, 147, 148, 166, 168, 170 |edition=First SPCK |url=https://archive.org/details/churchlessfaithf0000jami |access-date=8 January 2025}}</ref><ref name="Fowler">{{cite book |last1=Fowler |first1=James |title=Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Faith Development and the Quest for Meaning |date=1981 |publisher=Harper & Row Publishers |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-06-062840-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/stagesoffaith0000unse |access-date=8 January 2025}}</ref>