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Redefining Religion and Irreligion
2022This chapter addresses the cultural decentring of the clergy. It highlights that men and a few bold women field-preachers were losing the old clerical monopoly of access to the written word. The Church's role was slowly becoming adapted to suit a changing society. Within a pluralist system, people had choices between different faiths and non-faith. The
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1971
There are various ways in which a discussion of irreligion tends to involve a discussion of religion and morality. In the first case a discussion of the boundaries of the phenomenon of religion as well as that of irreligion involves distinguishing morality from religion.
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There are various ways in which a discussion of irreligion tends to involve a discussion of religion and morality. In the first case a discussion of the boundaries of the phenomenon of religion as well as that of irreligion involves distinguishing morality from religion.
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Digital Irreligion: Christian Deconversion in an Online Community
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2019AbstractWhat is the role of the Internet in a possible trend toward secularization in the United States? This case study seeks to elucidate the process of online deconversion by examining religious exit narratives (called “extimonies” by participants) as posted in a forum for ex‐Christians from 2005 to 2017.
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Mental Health Consequences of Irreligion
1992Abstract Irreligion has been conceptualized in a number of ways. Campbell (1971) wrote that irreligion can be marked by either indifference or hostility. In this way, irreligion could encompass “a-religion” as well as “anti-religion.” According to Demerath (1969), however, irreligion implies an aggressive rejection of religion that ...
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