Lois Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lois Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lois |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0568-2958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Becoming Humanist
It is widely accepted that the growth of 'non-religious' identification and 'non-belief' in God(s) in many societies is linked to changing religious socialization. However, existing research mapping these intergenerational changes has largely focused on religious decline or the loss of belief-'push' factors-rather than exploring the distinctive non-religious forms of life into which children are growing up, which may operate as 'pull' factors. Dr…
Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization
Atheism
Agnosticism
Secularity and Non-Religion
The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism-topics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines. The essays cover a wide span-in terms of the various stances they discuss (secular, atheist, non-religious), the settings in which these topics are relevant (families, wider society, politics, demography) and…
Recognizing the Non-religious
In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny. At the same time, many countries have increasingly large non-affiliate, ‘subjectively secular’ populations, and actively non-religious cultural movements such as the New Atheism and the Sunday Assembly have come to prominence. Making sense of secularity and irreligion, and the relationship between them, has therefore emerged as a crucial task for thos…
Ambivalent Atheist Identities
In Britain, most non-theists and atheists do not identify themselves as such in explicit terms, yet non-theistic cultural threads are interwoven through everyday discourses. This article calls for more extensive ethnographic engagement with these more diffuse—and therefore less visible and less commonly researched—forms of non-religious culture. Based on exploratory fieldwork conducted in South East England, it draws attention to one set of these…
Secular or nonreligious? Investigating and interpreting generic 'not religious' categories and populations
In research dealing with religious affiliation, generic nonreligious categories – ‘no religion’, ‘not religious’, ‘nonreligious’, ‘nones’ – are frequently used to measure secularity and secularisation processes. Analysis of these categories is, however, problematic because they have not received dedicated methodological attention. Using qualitative research conducted in the UK, this article investigates what nonreligious categories measure and, s…
Making sense of surveys and censuses
Censuses and surveys shape decisions, discourse and debates about people and their lived environments. The outcomes, in the case of a census, inform governments about resource distribution but also shape people's self-understanding about who they are and where they may be going. How people self-identify on censuses and surveys produces certain types of knowledge. This introduction emphasises the impact of those instruments on knowledge production…
Western Europe
A particular affinity between Western Europe and atheism is commonly perceived. This essay outlines the ways in which especially histories of atheism and secularization have described and assumed this affinity, and argues that a tradition of empirical research is needed in order to understand and establish it. This essay also introduces some pioneering quantitative and qualitative contributions towards such a tradition. This research illuminates …
Research Note
The recognition of non-religion as a significant social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon represents a sea change—or revolution—in social scientific thinking about religion and modernity. The speedy expansion of the field has, however, left its terminology lagging behind, with most scholars drawing on concepts familiar to the disciplinary or other cultural settings within which they work. The result is a terminology that is used inconsisten…
Interdisciplinary Studies of Non-religion and Secularity
It has become something of a cliche to begin social-scientific studies of non-religion,1 secularity, atheism, and related topics by bewailing the dearth of previous research (e.g. Bainbridge; Bogen
Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland
Research Note
The recognition of non-religion as a significant social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon represents a sea change—or revolution—in social scientific thinking about religion and modernity. The speedy expansion of the field has, however, left its terminology lagging behind, with most scholars drawing on concepts familiar to the disciplinary or other cultural settings within which they work. The result is a terminology that is used inconsisten…
Secular or nonreligious? Investigating and interpreting generic 'not religious' categories and populations
In research dealing with religious affiliation, generic nonreligious categories – ‘no religion’, ‘not religious’, ‘nonreligious’, ‘nones’ – are frequently used to measure secularity and secularisation processes. Analysis of these categories is, however, problematic because they have not received dedicated methodological attention. Using qualitative research conducted in the UK, this article investigates what nonreligious categories measure and, s…
Interdisciplinary Studies of Non-religion and Secularity
It has become something of a cliche to begin social-scientific studies of non-religion,1 secularity, atheism, and related topics by bewailing the dearth of previous research (e.g. Bainbridge; Bogen
Making sense of surveys and censuses
Censuses and surveys shape decisions, discourse and debates about people and their lived environments. The outcomes, in the case of a census, inform governments about resource distribution but also shape people's self-understanding about who they are and where they may be going. How people self-identify on censuses and surveys produces certain types of knowledge. This introduction emphasises the impact of those instruments on knowledge production…
Becoming Humanist
It is widely accepted that the growth of 'non-religious' identification and 'non-belief' in God(s) in many societies is linked to changing religious socialization. However, existing research mapping these intergenerational changes has largely focused on religious decline or the loss of belief-'push' factors-rather than exploring the distinctive non-religious forms of life into which children are growing up, which may operate as 'pull' factors. Dr…
Recognizing the Non-religious
In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny. At the same time, many countries have increasingly large non-affiliate, ‘subjectively secular’ populations, and actively non-religious cultural movements such as the New Atheism and the Sunday Assembly have come to prominence. Making sense of secularity and irreligion, and the relationship between them, has therefore emerged as a crucial task for thos…
Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland
Research Note
The recognition of non-religion as a significant social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon represents a sea change—or revolution—in social scientific thinking about religion and modernity. The speedy expansion of the field has, however, left its terminology lagging behind, with most scholars drawing on concepts familiar to the disciplinary or other cultural settings within which they work. The result is a terminology that is used inconsisten…
Interdisciplinary Studies of Non-religion and Secularity
It has become something of a cliche to begin social-scientific studies of non-religion,1 secularity, atheism, and related topics by bewailing the dearth of previous research (e.g. Bainbridge; Bogen
Western Europe
A particular affinity between Western Europe and atheism is commonly perceived. This essay outlines the ways in which especially histories of atheism and secularization have described and assumed this affinity, and argues that a tradition of empirical research is needed in order to understand and establish it. This essay also introduces some pioneering quantitative and qualitative contributions towards such a tradition. This research illuminates …
Secular or nonreligious? Investigating and interpreting generic 'not religious' categories and populations
In research dealing with religious affiliation, generic nonreligious categories – ‘no religion’, ‘not religious’, ‘nonreligious’, ‘nones’ – are frequently used to measure secularity and secularisation processes. Analysis of these categories is, however, problematic because they have not received dedicated methodological attention. Using qualitative research conducted in the UK, this article investigates what nonreligious categories measure and, s…
Making sense of surveys and censuses
Censuses and surveys shape decisions, discourse and debates about people and their lived environments. The outcomes, in the case of a census, inform governments about resource distribution but also shape people's self-understanding about who they are and where they may be going. How people self-identify on censuses and surveys produces certain types of knowledge. This introduction emphasises the impact of those instruments on knowledge production…
Recognizing the Non-religious
In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny. At the same time, many countries have increasingly large non-affiliate, ‘subjectively secular’ populations, and actively non-religious cultural movements such as the New Atheism and the Sunday Assembly have come to prominence. Making sense of secularity and irreligion, and the relationship between them, has therefore emerged as a crucial task for thos…
Ambivalent Atheist Identities
In Britain, most non-theists and atheists do not identify themselves as such in explicit terms, yet non-theistic cultural threads are interwoven through everyday discourses. This article calls for more extensive ethnographic engagement with these more diffuse—and therefore less visible and less commonly researched—forms of non-religious culture. Based on exploratory fieldwork conducted in South East England, it draws attention to one set of these…
Secularity and Non-Religion
The present collection brings together a set of essays which shed light on recent research into non-religion, secularity and atheism-topics which have been emerging as important areas of current research in a number of different disciplines. The essays cover a wide span-in terms of the various stances they discuss (secular, atheist, non-religious), the settings in which these topics are relevant (families, wider society, politics, demography) and…
Atheism
Agnosticism
Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization
Becoming Humanist
It is widely accepted that the growth of 'non-religious' identification and 'non-belief' in God(s) in many societies is linked to changing religious socialization. However, existing research mapping these intergenerational changes has largely focused on religious decline or the loss of belief-'push' factors-rather than exploring the distinctive non-religious forms of life into which children are growing up, which may operate as 'pull' factors. Dr…
Religion and Society Interactions (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Atheism (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works)