TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baggett,Jerome P.
TI  - The varieties of nonreligious experience: atheism in American culture 
T2  - Secular studies
SN  - 9781479857395
AV  - BL2747.3 .B243 2019eb
U1  - 211/.80973 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - NYU Press
KW  - Atheism
KW  - United States
KW  - Athéisme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Agnosticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - God
KW  - New Atheist
KW  - William James
KW  - acquisition narratives
KW  - agnostic root
KW  - ancient Greece
KW  - atheists
KW  - closed-mindedness
KW  - conflict myth
KW  - conversion
KW  - critical root
KW  - diversity
KW  - empirical root
KW  - gratitude
KW  - imagined community
KW  - immanent root
KW  - inquisitives
KW  - integrity
KW  - judge
KW  - morality
KW  - open-mindedness
KW  - personally meaningful
KW  - psychological
KW  - public discourse
KW  - religion
KW  - religions
KW  - religiosity
KW  - religious institutions
KW  - science
KW  - scientism
KW  - sociology
KW  - sovereign
KW  - spiritual
KW  - stigma stories
KW  - teleological
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus combined. In spite of their relatively significant presence in society, atheists are one of the most stigmatized groups in the United States, frequently portrayed as immoral, unhappy, or even outright angry. Yet we know very little about what their lives are actually like as they live among their largely religious, and sometimes hostile, fellow citizens. In this book, Jerome P. Baggett listens to what atheists have to say about their own lives and viewpoints. Drawing on questionnaires and interviews with more than five hundred American atheists scattered across the country, 'The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience' uncovers what they think about morality, what gives meaning to their lives, how they feel about religious people, and what they think and know about religion itself. Though the wider public routinely understands atheists in negative terms, as people who do not believe in God, Baggett pushes readers to view them in a different light. Rather than simply rejecting God and religion, atheists actually embrace something much more substantive-lives marked by greater integrity, open-mindedness, and progress
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