Virtuous Pagans: Unreligious People in America

ISBN-13: 9780367024741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 290 str.

Thomas H. Davenport

Opis

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 the topic.

Spis treści

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