Varieties of Nonreligion: Why some people criticize religion, while others just don’t care
This paper explores why indifference towards religion shifts into a critique of religion. Using everyday life-definitions and based on interview data, it develops and tests the hypothesis that experiences with religious people and the way they treat and impact others is a primary factor in how the n...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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| In: |
Religious Indifference
Year: 2017, Pages: 219–237 |
| Further subjects: | B
critique of religion
B Indifference B Nonreligion B Irreligion B Discrimination of atheists B Religion B Homophobia B Prejudice B Anti-religious |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This paper explores why indifference towards religion shifts into a critique of religion. Using everyday life-definitions and based on interview data, it develops and tests the hypothesis that experiences with religious people and the way they treat and impact others is a primary factor in how the non- or irreligious evaluate religion, and whether they remain indifferent or begin to criticize it. This calls for a context-based approach, rather than a mere typology of responses toward religion or the classification of personality types. Furthermore, it sheds light upon a feature that is often overlooked: Religion—depending on its role in society—affects not only its adherents, but the lives of the irreligious, too. Therefore, the article calls for a new understanding of religion and an approach to the study of religion and irreligion which studies the two in relation to one another. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319484761 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious Indifference
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48476-1_11 |
