The Nonreligious
Understanding Secular People and Societies
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2016
336 pages
978-0-19-939383-1 (ISBN)
Description
The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of existing social scientific research on secular people and societies. The authors present a thorough overview of existing knowledge while also drawing upon ongoing research and suggesting ways to improve our understanding of this growing population. Offering a research- and data-based examination of the nonreligious, this book will be an invaluable source of information and a foundation for further scholarship. Written in clear, accessible language that will appeal to students and the increasingly interested general reader, The Nonreligious provides an unbiased and thorough account of relevant existing scholarship within the social sciences that bears on lived experiences of the nonreligious.
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Understanding Secular People and Societies
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Understanding Secular People and Societies
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Persons
Phil Zuckerman is Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies at Pitzer College.
Luke W. Galen is Professor of Psychology at Grand Valley State University.
Frank L. Pasquale is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on secularity and the role of the religious-secular construct in the world.
Content
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
