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Penny Edgell
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 42
Citations - 2588
Penny Edgell is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Religious identity & Religiosity. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 36 publications receiving 2361 citations.
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Atheists As ''Other'': Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American
TL;DR: This paper examined the limits of Americans' acceptance of atheists and found that atheists are less likely to be accepted, publicly and privately, than any others from a long list of ethnic, religious, and other minority groups.
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Atheists As "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society.
TL;DR: The authors examined the limits of Americans' acceptance of atheists and found that atheists are less likely to be accepted, publicly and privately, than any others from a long list of ethnic, religious, and other minority groups.
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Religion and family in a changing society
TL;DR: In this article, Contested changes "Family Values in Local Religious Life" in local religious life are discussed and a discussion of the role of religious involvement in family values is presented.
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A cultural sociology of religion: New directions
TL;DR: The authors review three contemporary streams of scholarship that are revitalizing the cultural analysis of religion, an approach that dates to the discipline's founding. But they focus on the institutions that shape religious belief, practice, and mobilization.
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Atheists and Other Cultural Outsiders: Moral Boundaries and the Non-Religious in the United States
TL;DR: The authors found that anti-atheist sentiment is strong, persistent, and driven in part by moral concerns about atheists and agreement with cultural values that affirm religiosity as a constitutive moral grounding of citizenship and national identity.