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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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The Nature and Forms of Irreligion
1971The claim of the sociology of irreligion to be accepted as an important and viable sphere of study clearly cannot be admitted until its specific subject of investigation has been outlined. Irreligion itself must be identified, delineated and defined and its various forms described.
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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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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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