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On Spitting Against the Wind: Organizational Precariousness and American Irreligion
American Journal of Sociology, 1966This is an analysis of a small-town Wisconsin free-thought movement and its response to organizational dilemmas arising out of its irreligion. More particularly, it is an analysis of organization demise. The study isolates a number of variables which help to account for the movemet's history. Several relate to the community context such as vertical and
N J, Demerath, V, Thiessen
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The Secular Northwest: Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar Life by Tina Block (review)
Oregon historical quarterly, 2022K. Leonard
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Prologue: Toward a Sociology of Irreligion
1971It would be wrong to suppose that irreligion is a creation of the twentieth century. Although we are accustomed to hearing the age we live in described as the ‘secular age’ or the ‘age of doubt’, previous periods of history could justifiably be similarly labelled. To the Christians of the time, the last years of the Roman Empire must have seemed a time
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Religion and Irreligion in Early Iranian Nationalism
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1962The period 1905–1912 saw a number of nearly simultaneous revolutions or mass movements in Asian countries, which may be considered as the first wave of a revolutionary movement which continues to rock Asia. The Chinese overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, the Young Turk victory, and the Indian mass movement of 1905–1909 are probably the best-known in a ...
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Hume’S ‘of Miracles’: Probability and Irreligion
1991Abstract David Hume wrote a philosophical essay on the subject of miracles at some time during the years 1735 to 1737 while he was living at La Fleche, where he made use of the Jesuits’ library. It was intended for inclusion in A treatise of human nature’ but the final work appeared “castrated” of this “nobler part”.
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Toward a Sociology of Irreligion
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1976N. J. Demerath, Colin Campbell
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