Becoming a Religious None: Irreligious Socialization and Disaffiliation
The rise in the numbers of religious nones is an almost universal phenomenon across the Western world. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which religious nones are socialized to adopt a no religion position as children, as compared with disaffiliating during their teen or adul...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-82 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
North America
/ Irreligiousness
/ Socialization
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Socialization
B Secularization B Disaffiliation B religious nones |
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| Summary: | The rise in the numbers of religious nones is an almost universal phenomenon across the Western world. The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which religious nones are socialized to adopt a no religion position as children, as compared with disaffiliating during their teen or adult years. Related, among those religious nones who come from a religious background, we examine the timing and depth of a person's disaffiliation. This study sheds light on these issues by combining a quantitative analysis of religious nones samples in Alberta, Canada, America, and other international contexts with a qualitative analysis of 30 semistructured interviews with religious nones. Building on a stage of decline framework, we argue that while disaffiliation has been a lead catalyst for the growth among the religious none populationand we offer several observations of what fuels disaffiliationmoving forward we can and should expect irreligious socialization to gradually take the lead in explaining rising religious none figures. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12319 |