Showing papers in "Sociology of Religion in 2017"
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TL;DR: By 2015 those who said they had "no religion" when asked about religion on surveys and censuses had become an absolute majority in Britain this paper and they became a cultural majority in the UK.
Abstract: By 2015 those who said they had “no religion” when asked about religion on surveys and censuses had become an absolute majority in Britain. Drawing on surveys and interviews carried out in Great Britain between 2013 and 2015 this lecture offers a portrait of the “nones” and attempts to explain their rise to become a cultural majority.
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TL;DR: This paper studied Pentecostal middle-class congregations in Argentina and found that the reduction of tension involves impression management: the studied middleclass groups display middle class features and selectively shield tension-related practices from the glances of non-Pentecostals, switching between sect-like and church-like styles of religion.
Abstract: Sect-to-church theory assumes that sects will become more church-like as members’ socioeconomic status improves. By abandoning tension-related characteristics, they decrease the level of tension with their social environment. Studying Pentecostal middle-class congregations in Argentina, this article shows that the reduction of tension involves impression management: the studied middle-class congregations display middle-class features (e.g., educational training) and selectively shield tension-related practices (e.g., glossolalia) from the glances of non-Pentecostal peers. Instead of abandoning tension-related practices to reduce tension, middle-class congregations strategically adjust their religious practices depending on the extent to which these are accessible for relevant outsiders, switching between sect-like and church-like styles of religion.
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