Atheism is not only a prevalent but a highly stigmatized element in American society, yet atheists have been denied a voice within sociological literature. As such, our knowledge of atheists is both limited and superficial. To compensate for such shortcomings, I focused my research on the stigmatized and marginalized minority of American atheists. As the atheist identity is generally achieved, ...

This research note aims to examine the effect of religion market abuses on religious conversion, particularly non-transmission preferences from parents their offspring. Based a field survey 1,475 individuals in cities Douala and Yaoundé, this seeks understand dynamics socio-economic forces that lead abandonment parents’ religions. The econometric results reveal explanatory factors for changes o...

Between 1945 and 1980, evangelicals emerged as a key political constituency in American politics, helping to form the Religious Right and work for the election of Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans. This article argues that they embraced a distinctive type of revivalist nationalism, centered around the mass revival. Case studies of Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Jerry Falwell, and Ron...

Projecting the religious composition of the population is relevant for several reasons. It is a key characteristic influencing several aspects of individual behaviour, including marriage and childbearing patterns. The religious composition is also a driver of social cohesion and increased religious diversity could imply a more fragmented society. In this context, Austria finds itself in a perio...

Hostility towards a population, whether on religious, ethnic, cultural or socioeconomic grounds, confronts rulers with a trade-off between taking advantage of population members’ eagerness to maintain their identity and inducing them to “comply” (conversion, quit, exodus or any other way of pleasing the hostile rulers). This paper first analyzes the rulers’ optimal mix of discriminatory and non...