None of the Above (eBook)

Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada

Joel Thiessen, Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme (Autoren)

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2020
Nyu Press (Verlag)
9781479864225 (ISBN)

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Compares secular attitudes characterizing "e;religious nones"e; in the United States and CanadaAlmost a quarter of American and Canadian adults are nonreligious, while teens and young adults are even less likely to identify religiously. None of the Above explores the growing phenomenon of religious nones in North America. Who are the religious nones? Why, and where, is this population growing? While there has been increased attention on secularism in both Europe and the United States, little work to date has focused on Canada. Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme turn to survey and interview data to explore how a nonreligious identity impacts a variety of aspects of daily life in the US and Canada in sometimes similar and sometimes different ways, offering insights to illuminate societal and political trends. With numbers of nonreligious people even higher in Canada than in the US, some believe that secular currents to the north foreshadow what will happen in the US. None of the Above asserts that a growing divide between religious and nonreligious populations could engender a greater distance in moral and political values and behaviors. At once provocative and insightful, this book tackles questions of coexistence, religious tolerance, and spirituality, as American and Canadian society accelerate toward a more secular future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Secular Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 44 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Apostasy • Atheists • believing without belonging • Canada • Charitable Giving • deep equality • defining religion • Demographics • disaffiliation • Discrimination • Diversity • Environment • Evangelicals • exclusive religions • fertility rates • governmental aid • Growth Rates • Immigration • inactive believers • inactive non-believers • inclusive religions • involved believers • involved seculars • irreligious socialization • late modern society • Morality • pluralism • polarization • re-affiliation • regional • Religious Right • Same-Sex Marriage • Secularization • Social Acceptance • social and civic engagement • Socialization • Sociology • Spiritual but Not Religious • Spirituality • subtypes of religious nones • United States • Volunteering • women in workforce
• ISBN-13: 9781479864225 / 9781479864225