The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious, by JOSEPH BLANKHOLM
In: Sociology of religion, Band 84, Heft 1, S. 106-107
ISSN: 1759-8818
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In: Sociology of religion, Band 84, Heft 1, S. 106-107
ISSN: 1759-8818
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 134, Heft 2, S. 359-360
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Science, Religion & Culture: SRC, Band 5, Heft 1
ISSN: 2055-222X
In: Sociology of religion, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 109-110
ISSN: 1759-8818
In: Qualitative sociology, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 83-109
ISSN: 1573-7837
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 122, Heft 1, S. 320-322
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Sociology of religion, Band 82, Heft 1, S. 85-110
ISSN: 1759-8818
AbstractDrawing on fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this study examines the ways affirmatively secular individuals construct moral frameworks, navigate hardship, and create meaningful selves. Based on an inductive, thematic analysis of the data, we show that secular individuals' identities and interpretations of everyday experience and important life events are made meaningful through personal narratives and shared social spaces where cultural values are practiced, imbuing secular worldviews with a sense of legitimacy. Through participants' responses to questions of "ultimate concern" including life's purpose, and the meaning of happiness, hardship, and death, we argue that a sense of otherness, appeals to normative values, and the reframing of existential questions in secular terms plays an essential role in the lives of a segment of the growing, increasingly diverse nonreligious community. Our findings have implications for scholars of secularity, including the role of ambiguity in secular beliefs and the importance of narrative in worldview formation.
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 25-43
ISSN: 1533-8525