Faith no more [electronic resource] : why people reject religion / Phil Zuckerman.
2012
BR517 .Z83 2012eb
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Faith no more [electronic resource] : why people reject religion / Phil Zuckerman.
Author
Zuckerman, Phil.
ISBN
9780199876495 (electronic bk.)
0199876495 (electronic bk.)
9780199740017
0199740011
0199876495 (electronic bk.)
9780199740017
0199740011
Publication Details
New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (224 p.)
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BR517 .Z83 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
277.3/083
Summary
During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus--and nonbelievers." It was the first time an American president had acknowledged the existence of this rapidly growing segment of the population in such a public forum. And yet the reasons why more and more people are turning away from religion are still poorly understood. In Faith No More, Phil Zuckerman draws on in-depth interviews with people who have left religion to find out what's really behind the process of losing one's faith. According to a 2008 study, so many Americans claim no religion (15%, up from 8% in 1990) that this category now outranks every other religious group except Catholics and Baptists. Exploring the deeper stories within such survey data, Zuckerman shows that leaving one's faith is a highly personal, complex, and drawn-out process. And he finds that, rather than the cliche of the angry, nihilistic atheist, apostates are life-affirming, courageous, highly intelligent and inquisitive, and deeply moral. Zuckerman predicts that this trend toward nonbelief will likely continue and argues that the sooner we recognize that religion is frequently and freely rejected by all sorts of men and women, the sooner our understanding of the human condition will improve. The first book of its kind, Faith No More will appeal to anyone interested in the "New Atheism" and indeed to anyone wishing to more fully understand our changing relationship to religious faith. - Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215) and index.
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Table of Contents
Mother was an exorcist
Stopped making sense
Misfortune
To be Mormon, or not to be
Sex and secularity
Others
Jail, food stamps, and atheism
The apostate worldview
All in the family?
How and why people reject religion
Appendix. Research methods and sample characteristics.
Stopped making sense
Misfortune
To be Mormon, or not to be
Sex and secularity
Others
Jail, food stamps, and atheism
The apostate worldview
All in the family?
How and why people reject religion
Appendix. Research methods and sample characteristics.