Of Pride and Prejudice—A Cross-National Exploration of Atheists’ National Pride

This paper explores how atheism relates to national pride. Previous research reports the strong positive relationship between religiosity and Inversely, it can be assumed that atheists feel less Whether this assumption holds true whether perceived relevance of for values as fundamental pride is a national-specific or global phenomenon will investigated here by examining attitudes towards assessing cross-nationally proud truly are their countries. The data reveals cross-country differences in both respects. In highly religious countries, prejudice against pronounced, while atheists’ feelings indeed tend weaker. But what exactly predicts pride? For Multilevel Analysis question, article uses ONBound database offering cumulated harmonized from international survey programs well linked country-level on identities religion. Results identify countries’ ideological background one crucial predictors among atheists. people who deny religion also seem possess ambivalent country. turn, if state ideology opposes religion, support combination anti-religiousness patriotism.