Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity Among Religious Nones

Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity among Religious Nones

Religious-Secular Cleavage and Political Stability in Israel

Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. This state of affairs has endangered the political stability of the Israeli regime. The present research is trying to answer this question: what is the effect of religious-secular cleavages in Israel on the fu...

The Secular Benefits of Comparative Religious Education

“Religious Nones” in the United Kingdom: How Atheists and Agnostics Think about Religion and Politics

The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...

Religious and secular giving, by race and ethnicity

PATTERNS OF GIVING and volunteering by different racial and ethnic groups have been subjected to increasingly sophisticated scrutiny of late. Surveys (for example, Hodgkinson and Weitzman, 1996) suggest that African American and Hispanic families are less likely to make charitable donations or volunteer and make smaller average donations (or volunteer fewer hours) than white and Anglo families....