Questions You Should Never Ask an Atheist: Towards Better Measures of Nonreligion and Secularity
As interest in the nonreligious has grown, attention has turned to how to measure both the growth of and variation within the nonreligious. This interest has also revealed that prior measures of religiosity are often problematic. In this research note, I detail some of these problems. For instance,...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Secularism and Nonreligion
Année: 2019, Volume: 8, Pages: 1-6 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Athéisme
/ Laïcité
/ Irréligion
/ Mesurabilité
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions AB Philosophie de la religion AD Sociologie des religions |
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| Résumé: | As interest in the nonreligious has grown, attention has turned to how to measure both the growth of and variation within the nonreligious. This interest has also revealed that prior measures of religiosity are often problematic. In this research note, I detail some of these problems. For instance, some measures fail to contrast nonreligiosity with religiosity. Other measures are double-barreled or one-and-a-half barreled, making them impossible for nonreligious individuals to answer. Finally, I note that how questions are worded can result in very different estimates of how many nonreligious people and atheists there are in a population. |
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| ISSN: | 2053-6712 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Secularism and Nonreligion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5334/snr.122 |
