Virtuous Pagans: Unreligious People in America [Hardcover]

This book, first published in 1991, examines the unreligious of America. Most sociologists of religion viewed religious belief and behaviour as having strong positive function for individual well-being  with the implicit assumption that unreligious individuals would lack meaning in life. This book applies statistical approaches to modelling causality as it analyses a controversial topic in American sociology.

1. Why Study the Unreligious?  2. Defining the Unreligious  3. A Sociological Profile of the Unreligious  4. The Psychological Well-Being of the Unreligious  5. Meaning and Purpose Orientations Among the Unreligious  6. Explanations for Being and Becoming Unreligious  7. Summary and Discussion of Roads Untaken

This book, first published in 1991, examines the unreligious of America. Most sociologists of religion viewed religious belief and behaviour as having strong positive function for individual well-being  with the implicit assumption that unreligious individuals would lack meaning in life. This book applies statistical approaches to the topic.