The varieties of nonreligious experience : atheism in American culture / Jerome P. Baggett.

A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America. Self-identified atheists make up roughly 5 percent of the American religious landscape, comprising a larger population than Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Orthodox Christians, Muslim...

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Uniform Title:Secular studies.
Main Author: Baggett, Jerome P., 1963- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Secular studies.
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Physical Description:xvi, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Getting the lay of the land: identifying as atheist -- Well, I'll be damned!: considering atheism beyond the popular view -- Acquiring atheist identities: four acquisition narratives -- Maintaining atheist identities: stigma, reason, feelings -- Digging a bit deeper: cultivating atheist sensibilities -- The empirical root: science without scientism -- The critical root: living with integrity by saying no -- The agnostic root: being open by saying I don't know -- The immanent root: progressing by saying yes. 
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