Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion
In Faith No More, Phil Zuckerman reports results from 87 interviews he conducted with apostates. The research question is expressed in the subtitle: Why do people reject religion? Zuckerman answers this by showing the many reasons expressed by his interviewees. In short, people reject religion for a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2012
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 73, Issue: 3, Pages: 354-355 |
| Review of: | Faith no more (New York : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Draper, Scott)
Faith no more (New York : Oxford University Press, 2012) (Draper, Scott) |
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| Summary: | In Faith No More, Phil Zuckerman reports results from 87 interviews he conducted with apostates. The research question is expressed in the subtitle: Why do people reject religion? Zuckerman answers this by showing the many reasons expressed by his interviewees. In short, people reject religion for about as many different reasons as one can imagine. These reasons include: irreligious friends and family members, higher education, personal tragedies, exposure to new cultures, liberal politics, sexual values, religious hypocrisy, and objection to particular religious doctrines. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srs051 |