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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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Springer
2017
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Religious Indifference
Año: 2017, Páginas: 219–237 |
| Otras palabras clave: | 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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| Sumario: | 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: | 3319484761 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Religious Indifference
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48476-1_11 |