From “Atheism” to “Religious Indifference”: Suggestions for Future Research on Secularization

Franzmann, Manuel

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“…63 While the vast majority of social surveys do not allow respondents to elaborate further on their lack of religious affiliation, or distinguish only between atheism and agnosticism, recent research showed that generic non-religious labels hide a rich variety of internal differences ranging from new atheism to atheism plus, humanism, religious indifference, secularism, and so on. [65][66][67][68] A new comparative study of Brazil, China, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States showed that only a minority of nones describe themselves as an ''atheist'' or ''agnostic,'' frequently preferring other popular labels, such as ''humanist,'' ''free-thinker,'' ''skeptic,'' ''secular,'' etc. 69 The study also pointed out that widespread theoretical assumptions about atheists and non-believers in general, such as the strong dogmatic conviction of self-assessed atheists or the lack of supernatural beliefs among nones, are frequently violated at an empirical level.…”

Section: Studying Non-religion With Small Datamentioning

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How can big data shape the field of non-religion studies? And why does it matter?

2021

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The shift of attention from the decline of organized religion to the rise of post-Christian spiritualities, anti-religious positions, secularity, and religious indifference has coincided with the deconstruction of the binary distinction between ''religion'' and ''non-religion''-initiated by spirituality studies throughout the 1980s and recently resumed by the emerging field of non-religion studies. The current state of cross-national surveys makes it difficult to address the new theoretical concerns due to (1) lack of theoretically relevant variables, (2) lack of longitudinal data to track historical changes in non-religious positions, and (3) difficulties in accessing small and/or hardly reachable sub-populations of religious nones. We explore how user profiling, text analytics, automatic image classification, and various research designs based on the integration of survey methods and big data can address these issues as well as shape non-religion studies, promote its institutionalization, stimulate interdisciplinary cooperation, and improve the understanding of non-religion by redefining current methodological practices. ll

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Section: Studying Non-religion With Small Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

How can big data shape the field of non-religion studies? And why does it matter?

2021

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Autonomie und Bewährung im Kontext einer säkularisierten Transzendenz

Franzmann

2018

Rekonstruktive Sozialisationsforschung

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Secular justifications of the world. A neo-Weberian typology of cosmodicies

Schaefer

2020

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This article asks how secular societies cope with suffering and fortune perceived as unjust and undeserved. It investigates secular forms of dealing with the originally religious problem of theodicy. According to Weber’s work, Western societies have solved this problem with the meritocratic ideal based on the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, which gave rise to the capitalistic work ethics. Current sociological diagnoses observe a crisis of these ethics, which begs the question of whether this also indicates a crisis of meritocratism. The article addresses this question from the perspective of sociology of religion and translates Weber’s typology of religious theodicies into a typology of secular cosmodicies. The typology serves as an analytical tool, allowing for systematic comparisons of justifications in different empirical cases.

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From “Atheism” to “Religious Indifference”: Suggestions for Future Research on Secularization

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

How can big data shape the field of non-religion studies? And why does it matter?

How can big data shape the field of non-religion studies? And why does it matter?

Autonomie und Bewährung im Kontext einer säkularisierten Transzendenz

Secular justifications of the world. A neo-Weberian typology of cosmodicies

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