The nonreligious : understanding secular people and societies
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The nonreligious : understanding secular people and societies
Oxford University Press, c2016
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The nonreligious : understanding secular people & societies
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-309) and index
Contents of Works
- The study of secularity and the nonreligious
- Secularity around the world
- Secularity through time
- Secularity and society
- How and why people become secular
- Personality, cognition, and family behavior
- Secularity and well-being
- Secular morality and ethics
- Social and political attitudes and values
- Secular social and organizational behavior
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The number of non-religious men and women has increased dramatically over the past several decades. Yet scholarship on the non-religious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analytical discussion of existing social scientific research on the non-religious. The authors present a thorough overview of existing research, while also drawing on ongoing research and positing ways
to improve upon our current understanding of this growing population.
The findings in this book stand out against the corpus of secular writing, which is comprised primarily of polemical rants critiquing religion, personal life-stories/memoirs of former believers, or abstract philosophical explorations of theology and anti-theology. By offering the first research- and data-based conclusions about the non-religious, this book will be an invaluable source of information and a foundation for further scholarship. Written in clear, jargon-free language that will
appeal to the increasingly interested general readers, this book provides an unbiased, thorough account of all relevant existing scholarship within the social sciences that bears on the lived experience of the non-religious.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The study of Secularity and the Non-religious
Chapter 2. Secularity Around the World
Chapter 3: Secularity through Time: The Question of Secularization
Chapter 4: Secularity and Society
Chapter 5: How and Why People Become Secular
Chapter 6. Personality, Cognition, and Family Behavior
Chapter 7. Secularity and Well-Being
Chapter 8 . Are Secular People Moral and Ethical?
Chapter 9. Social and Political Attitudes and Values
Chapter 10. Secular Social and Institutional Behavior
Conclusion
References
Index
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