Disaffiliation: Some Notes on “Falling from the Faith”
Religious disaffiliation or defection has received far too little theoretical or empirical attention. A simple typology, constructed around “loss of religiosity” and “abandonment of communal identity,” is helpful in interpreting findings from selected studies of apostasy. Rather than rely strictly o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1980
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1980, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-54 |
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| Summary: | Religious disaffiliation or defection has received far too little theoretical or empirical attention. A simple typology, constructed around “loss of religiosity” and “abandonment of communal identity,” is helpful in interpreting findings from selected studies of apostasy. Rather than rely strictly on demographic factors and secularization theories as explanations for disaffiliation, the symbolic interactionist perspective known as “labelling” is employed to illustrate the subtle process of falling from the fundamentalist sect. The proposed typology and this social-psychological process combine to suggest some interesting, empirically-verifiable propositions. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709857 |