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The majority of the "Nones" are not nonbelievers. [27] The "None" response is more of an indicator for lacking affiliation than an active measure for irreligiosity, and a majority of the "Nones" can either be conventionally religious or "spiritual". [28] [18] [29] Americans may be becoming more "spiritual" and less "religious".
[3] [4] He is the joint editor of the new academic journal Secularism & Nonreligion and was one of the principal investigators of the 2008 American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS). [3] Kosmin is considered the leading expert "on the growing percentage of Americas who lack a religious identity, the so called "nones". [5]
In 2010, the religiously unaffiliated number 1.1 billion (about one-in-six people or 16% of the 6.9 billion population at the time), according to Pew Research Center. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] : 24 This "include atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion in surveys"; of that overall category, many may still hold ...
Secular paganism is an outlook that upholds the virtues and principles associated with paganism while maintaining a secular worldview. Post-theism is a variant of nontheism that proposes that the division of theism and atheism is obsolete and that the God-idea belongs to a stage of human development now past.
Nones fall into three groups: atheists, agnostics and “nothing in particular.” The latter make up nearly two-thirds of nones (63 percent), and tend to have a different demographic profile.
At the same time, the fraction of Americans identifying as Christians sank from 80.1% to 69% in 2021. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] In December 2021 ~21% of Americans declared no religious identity or preference. [ 55 ] [ 54 ] Given that non-Christian religions stayed roughly the same (at about 5-7% from 2008 to 2021) secularization thus seems to have affected ...
Annie Laurie Gaylor (born November 2, 1955) is an American atheist, secular and women's rights activist and a co-founder – and, with her husband Dan Barker, a current co-president – of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. [1] She was also the editor of the organization's newspaper, Freethought Today (published ten times per year) until 2015.
"We still have these almost medieval notions about women at times, with our control over them and their bodies." One way to work against these notions, for Sparks and women like her, is to use the same fantastical elements that subjugated the women collected by the Brothers Grimm, to empower the fictional women on her pages.