Shifts Along the American Religious-Secular Spectrum

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13017474
AutoresA Keysar (0000-0002-4131-6357, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen3
Páginas1-1
Fecha de publicación2014-03-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSecularism and Nonreligion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2053-6712 • E-ISSN: 2053-6712
EditorialUbiquity Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5334/snr.am
OpenAlexW2142078002
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas41

This paper examines three dimensions of American religion--belonging, behavior and belief--by creating a single, unified scale of religiosity and testing it with the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) and the General Social Survey (GSS). It shows that certain combinations of those three variables are far more common than others, and demonstrates changes over time in the percentage of people belonging to each cluster, with a trend toward diminishing religiosity. The paper identifies socio-demographic and geographic factors that are associated with the religiosity cluster to which a person belongs. The paper examines the ability of the new scale to predict how people will answer questions on contentious societal issues, using belief in evolution as a case study. The most religious definitely reject human evolution while the most secular definitely believe in it

Cartography · Cluster (spacecraft · Epistemology · General Social Survey · Geography · Identification (biology · Religiosity · Religious belief · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology