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Chapter Summary Chapter Summary
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The Emerging Study of Non-Religion The Emerging Study of Non-Religion
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Proto-Studies of the Non-Religious Proto-Studies of the Non-Religious
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New Approaches New Approaches
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Including the ‘Nones’ Including the ‘Nones’
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Non-Religious Activity and Experience Non-Religious Activity and Experience
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Non-Religious Institutions and Domains Non-Religious Institutions and Domains
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Secularism and Modernity Secularism and Modernity
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Multiple Secularities Multiple Secularities
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Religious and Non-Religious Interactions Religious and Non-Religious Interactions
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Future Prospects Future Prospects
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Non-Religion and Secularity Non-Religion and Secularity
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Glossary Glossary
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References References
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Further Reading Further Reading
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5 Non-Religion
Get accessLois Lee wrote her PhD thesis on the sociology of secularity and nonreligion (University of Cambridge, 2012) and, funded by the Blackham Fellowship, is completing her first monograph, Nonreligion, Secularity and Society. She has published widely on this topic and is founding director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (www.nsrn.net), editor of NSRN Online, and co-editor of Secularism and Nonreligion, as well as features editor for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.
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Published:06 June 2017
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Abstract
Beginning with a focus on ‘secularism’ in the mid-1990s and extending to the study of ‘secularity,’ ‘atheism,’ and ‘irreligious’ and ‘non-religious’ cultures from the mid-2000s onwards, the study of religion’s various ‘others’ is receiving increasing attention from scholars of religion. This chapter untangles the key topic strands in this broad area: non-religious populations; ‘religious-like’ phenomena such as non-religious lifecycle ceremonies and worldviews; dialectics between the religious and non-religious or secular; and secularist regimes of power. It outlines the theoretical concerns of these projects: rival accounts of secularism/s (e.g. postcolonial critiques, realist ‘multiple’ approaches); new ways of investigating and challenging secularization theory; and ‘egalitarian’ approaches to religion which challenge the idea that religion is unique—a sole example of a type. Each of these overlapping areas of research are young fields, and conceptual resources and distinctions are therefore works in progress and require careful negotiation.
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