Virtuous Pagans

Unreligious People in America
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-02479-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion

This book, first published in 1991, examines the unreligious of America. Most sociologists of religion viewed religious belief and behaviour as having strong positive function for individual well-being – with the implicit assumption that unreligious individuals would lack meaning in life. This book applies statistical approaches to modelling causality as it analyses a controversial topic in American sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davenport, Thomas H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Study the Unreligious? 2. Defining the Unreligious 3. A Sociological Profile of the Unreligious 4. The Psychological Well-Being of the Unreligious 5. Meaning and Purpose Orientations Among the Unreligious 6. Explanations for Being and Becoming Unreligious 7. Summary and Discussion of Roads Untaken