Organized secularism in the United States new directions in research

There has been a dramatic increase in the percentage of the US population that is not religious. However, there is, to date, very little research on the social movement that is organizing to serve the needs of and advocate for the nonreligious in the US. This is a book about the rise and structure o...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cragun, Ryan T. (HerausgeberIn), Fazzino, Lori L. (HerausgeberIn), Manning, Christel (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Berlin] ; [Boston] De Gruyter [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Religion and its others volume 6
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface Zuckerman, Phil
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction Cragun, Ryan / Manning, Christel
  • "I Know It When I See It:" Humanism, Secularism, and Religious Taxonomy Richter, Charles Louis
  • Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularism as Modern Secularity Rectenwald, Michael
  • "Splitters!": Lessons from Monty Python for Secular Organizations in the US Fazzino, Lori L. / Cragun, Ryan T.
  • Recognizing and Categorizing the Secular: Polysecularity and Agendas of Polysecularism Shook, John R.
  • Organizational Variation in the American Nonreligious Community Schutz, Amanda
  • Building Bridges in the Shadows of Steeples: Atheist Community and Identity Online Addington, Aislinn
  • Communal Secularity: Congregational Work at the Sunday Assembly Smith, Jesse M.
  • Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Non-religiosity at the Sunday Assembly Frost, Jacqui
  • A Typology of Organized Atheists and Secularists in Germany and the United States Mastiaux, Björn
  • Your Wedding, Your Way: Personalized, Nonreligious Weddings through the Universal Life Church Hoesly, Dusty
  • Doing Death Without Deity: Constructing Nonreligious Tools at the End of Life MacMurray, Nicholas J. / Fazzino, Lori L.
  • Old Questions and New Issues for Organized Secularism in the United States Kosmin, Barry
  • Index