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Shifts Along the American Religious-Secular Spectrum
No full textThis paper examines three dimensions of American religion--belonging, behavior and belief--by creating a single, unified scale of religiosity and testing it with the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) and the General Social Survey (GSS). It shows that certain combinations of those three variables are far more common than others, and demonstrates changes over time in the percentage of people belonging to each cluster, with a trend toward diminishing religiosity. The paper identifies socio-demographic and geographic factors that are associated with the religiosity cluster to which a person belongs. The paper examines the ability of the new scale to predict how people will answer questions on contentious societal issues, using belief in evolution as a case study. The most religious definitely reject human evolution while the most secular definitely believe in it
Portrait of Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Lebanese Muslim Association, Sydney, August 2003 [picture] /
No full textTitle from accompanying documentation.; Inscriptions: "Keysar Trad, Dec 2003 Glebe, Australian Lebanese Muslim (Suni) wellknown spokes person for Sheikh Al Hilali Lakem Ba Mosque NSW (Mufti), moderate Islam faction, author of books on Islam", and signed by photographer in pencil on reverse.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3123484
Preface
No full textFor decades commentators assumed that secularization was inevitable. By the latter part of the 20th century, however, it was being argued that religion was changing rather than declining. Yet just as there are many ways of being religious, so there are many ways of not being religious. What is becoming abundantly clear is not only that religiosity but also that both secularity (asa description of individual orientations) and secularism (as a description of society) are far more complicated, even paradoxical, than had been recognized. While more than 80% of Danes are formally members of the established state religion, less than 5% attend church on a weekly basis—and there are fewer official members of the Church of England (26%) than non-members who feel they belong (29%). Depending on what is understood by the concept, betweenone and 46% of the population of the United States can be defined as “secular,”yet 67% of Americans who say they have no religion believe in the existence of God — and, at the same time, there are self-identifying Lutherans and Roman Catholics professing that they do not believe in God
The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies. By Phil Zuckerman, Luke W. Galen, and Frank L. Pasquale
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L'Amérique religieuse, encore
No full textLe sondage American Religious Identification Survey 2008 vient d'être publié par le Trinity College de Hartford (Connecticut). Mené par Kosmin et Ariela Keysar, du Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSC) auprès de 54 461 adultes, cette enquête utilise la même méthode que les deux précédentes (de 1990 and 2001). Les résultats de cette auto-définition religieuse des Américains sont intéressants: depuis le sondage précédent, effectué en 2001, le christianisme a perdu..
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