Organized Secularism in the United States : New Directions in Research
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Organized Secularism in the United States : New Directions in Research

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eBook - PDF

Organized Secularism in the United States : New Directions in Research

About this book

Recent decades have witnessed the dramatic growth of an organized secularist movement that serves the needs of and advocates for the nonreligious. This volume brings together the latest research on organized secularism in the US, including its history, institution building, activist and political strategies, and its social functions in the lives of secularist individuals and families.

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Yes, you can access Organized Secularism in the United States : New Directions in Research by Lori Fazzino, Ryan T. Cragun, Christel Manning in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Theology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9783110458657

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. “I Know It When I See It:” Humanism, Secularism, and Religious Taxonomy
  5. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularism as Modern Secularity
  6. “Splitters!”: Lessons from Monty Python for Secular Organizations in the US
  7. Recognizing and Categorizing the Secular: Polysecularity and Agendas of Polysecularism
  8. Organizational Variation in the American Nonreligious Community
  9. Building Bridges in the Shadows of Steeples: Atheist Community and Identity Online
  10. Communal Secularity: Congregational Work at the Sunday Assembly
  11. Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Non-religiosity at the Sunday Assembly
  12. A Typology of Organized Atheists and Secularists in Germany and the United States
  13. Your Wedding, Your Way: Personalized, Nonreligious Weddings through the Universal Life Church
  14. Doing Death Without Deity: Constructing Nonreligious Tools at the End of Life
  15. Old Questions and New Issues for Organized Secularism in the United States
  16. Index