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On the Receiving End: Discrimination toward the Non-Religious in the United States
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This paper examined perceived discrimination faced by religious "nones" and found that the strongest predictor of such discrimination was not theological atheism or agnosticism but self-identifying as an atheist or agnostic when asked what one's religion is.Abstract:
The present study examines perceived discrimination faced by religious ‘nones’. After distinguishing between atheists, agnostics, and ‘nones’ who are deists or theists, we use nationally representative data from the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) to study the contexts in which these various types of religious ‘nones’ have reported experiencing discrimination. The strongest predictor of such discrimination was not theological atheism or agnosticism but self-identifying as an atheist or agnostic when asked what one's religion is. Context-specific predictors of discrimination are age, region of the country, rural versus urban location, parents’ religious identifications, educational attainment, ethnicity and race. Results are consistent with the view that people who hold more pronounced views are more likely to report discrimination.read more
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Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States
TL;DR: The authors found that anti-atheist sentiment is strong, persistent, and driven in part by moral concerns about atheists and agreement with cultural values that affirm religiosity as a constitutive moral grounding of citizenship and national identity.
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Forms, Frequency, and Correlates of Perceived Anti-Atheist Discrimination
TL;DR: This paper found that 41% of self-identified atheists reported experiencing discrimination in the last 5 years due to their lack of religious identification, including slander, coercion, social ostracism, denial of opportunities, goods, and services, and hate crime.
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The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies, and analyze three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere to illuminate this trend: a municipal council chamber; a town hall; and town board meetings.
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Religion und Gesellschaft : Aktuelle Perspektiven
Matthias Koenig,Christof Wolf +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, aufmerksamkeitsgewinn, den das Thema Religion in der Offentlichkeit seit einigen Jahren erfahrt, kann auch die Religionssoziologie einen neuen Aufschwung verzeichnen.
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