Sociology of atheism / / edited by Roberto Cipriani, Franco Garelli.

Recent studies show that atheism is increasing. The reasons for this development have not as yet been examined thoroughly. Many atheists continue to be residual groups in surveys on religiosity, making it difficult to examine who they are and why they have chosen to be atheists. Moreover, they are m...

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Superior document:Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 7
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Annual review of the sociology of religion ; Volume 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (303 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Roberto Cipriani and Franco Garelli
  • From “Atheism” to “Religious Indifference”: Suggestions for Future Research on Secularization / Manuel Franzmann
  • Universal and Foundational: Law’s Constitution of an Ethic of Belonging for Nones / Lori G. Beaman
  • Atheism, Class, and the Ghost of Karl Marx / Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith
  • Unaffiliated, Yet Religious: A Methodological and Demographic Analysis / Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson
  • Gender and Atheism: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and an Agenda for Future Research / Landon Schnabel , Matthew Facciani , Ariel Sincoff-Yedid and Lori Fazzino
  • Expressive Nontheism / Jesse M. Smith
  • The Rise and Fall of the New Atheism: Identity Politics and Tensions within u.s. Nonbelievers / Amarnath Amarasingam and Melanie Elyse Brewster
  • The True (Non)Believer? Atheists and the Atheistic in the United States / Evan M. Stewart
  • Forms of Atheism in Contemporary Greek Society: Beliefs, Practices and the Formation of the Atheist Identity / Alexandros Sakellariou
  • From God-Fighters to Atheists: Late Soviet Kinship and Tradition as an Expanding Universe of Unbelief / Sonja Luehrmann
  • Czech Republic: The Promised Land for Atheists? / Roman Vido , David Václavík and Antonín Paleček
  • Ambiguous Atheism: The Impact of Political Changes on the Meaning and Reception of Atheism in Estonia / Atko Remmel
  • Secularity, Non-religiosity, Atheism: Boundaries between Religion and Its Other / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
  • Postface / Roberto Cipriani
  • Index / Roberto Cipriani and Franco Garelli.