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Zusatztext This book is both innovative and insightful. In it, Lois Lee recognises non-religious experience as a lived and above all social reality, rather than a reasoned and individualized epistemology. The shift in emphasis from the hollowly secular to the substantively non-religious will, I have no doubt, provoke a lively debate. Informationen zum Autor Lois Lee is a Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent. She is a sociologist whose work focuses on the empirical study of nonreligion and atheism and, more widely, on the theory and study of culturally diverse and differentiated societies. Lois is founding director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) and co-edits the journal Secularism and Nonreligion. As well as work in academic journals and the media, Lois' publication include the edited volumes Secularity and Non-religion (Routledge) and Negotiating Religion (Ashgate). She is co-editor of the book series, Religion and Its Others: Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity (De Gruyter). Klappentext This book is an investigation of what it's like to be 'not religious' in secular Britain today. It draws attention to the ways in which the 'not religious' engage with 'religious' matters i.e. what it means to live and die, weddings and funerals, and identifying with or against people according to their religious or non-religious views and cultures Zusammenfassung This book is an investigation of what it's like to be 'not religious' in secular Britain today. It draws attention to the ways in which the 'not religious' engage with 'religious' matters i.e. what it means to live and die, weddings and funerals, and identifying with or against people according to their religious or non-religious views and cultures Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Contradistinctions In Terms: Vocabulary for the Study of Secularity and Nonreligion 2: The Insubstantial and the Substantial Secular: Theories of Secularity and Nonreligion 3: The Unwaved Flag: Material and Banal Forms of Nonreligion 4: Out of the Shadows: Nonreligious and Secularist Bodies in Relief 5: Friends And 'Anti-Fennelists': Nonreligious Relationships and Solidarities 6: Disaffiliation and Misaffiliation: Identifying Nonreligion in Public Life 7: Beyond Unbelief: Nonreligion and Existential Culture Conclusion Appendices ...
