The Nones: Social Characteristics of the Religiously Unaffiliated

Baker, Joseph O.; Smith, Buster G.

doi:10.1353/sof.0.0181

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“…Baker and Smith 2009a;2009b), as a core aim is to examine group-related variation in religiosity in terms of both practice (including attendance.) and belief.…”

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“Religious Nones” in the United Kingdom: How Atheists and Agnostics Think about Religion and Politics

Clements

Gries

2016

Politics and Religion

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Abstract:The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the "religious nones" is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality -if not sometimes the majority -in many surveys, there has been little scholarly investigation into atheists, agnostics, and others who do not 'Religious Nones' in the UK 2 identify with a particular religion. This article uses a 2014 survey of UK adults to examine how those who identify as atheist or agnostic differ from the religiously-affiliated in terms of religiosity, ideology, and policy preferences.Findings reveal secular groups in the UK to be more to the ideological left than the religiously affiliated, and that atheists and agnostics differ from each other and especially the religiously affiliated on policy.

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“…Baker and Smith 2009a;2009b), as a core aim is to examine group-related variation in religiosity in terms of both practice (including attendance.) and belief.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Religious Nones” in the United Kingdom: How Atheists and Agnostics Think about Religion and Politics

Clements

Gries

2016

Politics and Religion

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“…We estimate that 1.1 billion people were religiously unaffiliated in 2010, including more than 700 million in China, home to 62% of the world's religiously unaffiliated people. Some who state "no religion" in surveys do maintain a mix of religious beliefs and practices (Hout andFischer 2002, Baker andSmith 2009). Nonetheless, based on the absence of self-identified religious affiliation, we classify them as unaffiliated (Hackett, Grim et al 2012).…”

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The future size of religiously affiliated and unaffiliated populations

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Stonawski

Potančoková³

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“…Baker and Smith (2009) explored the religious and political views of atheists, agnostics and unchurched believers finding, predictably, that atheists were the most non-religious, followed by agnostics and then unchurched believers. However, more recent studies have highlighted how important strength of belief may be in differentiating between non-religious samples.…”

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“…Most surveys and population analyses categorise all non-religious people under one umbrella, although studies have already distinguished between several different categories; including 'atheists', 'agnostics', 'unchurched believers' and 'religious nones' (Baker & Smith, 2009;Lim, MacGregor, & Putnam, 2010;Zuckerman, 2012).…”

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Believe it or not: Exploring the relationship between dogmatism and openness within non-religious samples

Gurney

Churchyard

Howlett

2013

Personality and Individual Differences

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Personality and dogmatic thinking within religious individuals have been examined by previous research, but neglected for non-religious individuals. In this experiment, we distinguish between two types of non-religious groups; those who ascribe themselves to an identity (atheists) and those who do not (no beliefs in particular). A total of 103 nonreligious individuals (36% atheists and 64% with no particular beliefs) completed an online questionnaire measuring dogmatism and openness traits, with an additional Christian group (n = 91) serving as a control. After confirming a relationship between identity salience and dogmatism, and validating a measure of dogmatism (DOG) in both non-religious groups, we note key personality differences between the two. Those with no beliefs in particular demonstrated a traditional negative correlation between openness and dogmatism (along with Christians) while these variables correlated positively for atheists (in particular, on 'unconventionality'). This study is the first to establish differences between the relationship of dogmatism and openness within non-religious populations and explain these differences through group identity. Thus, identity strength and group belief systems are suggested to be key contributors to observed group differences between non-religious individuals.

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The Nones: Social Characteristics of the Religiously Unaffiliated

Cited by 138 publications

References 16 publications

“Religious Nones” in the United Kingdom: How Atheists and Agnostics Think about Religion and Politics

“Religious Nones” in the United Kingdom: How Atheists and Agnostics Think about Religion and Politics

The future size of religiously affiliated and unaffiliated populations

Believe it or not: Exploring the relationship between dogmatism and openness within non-religious samples

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