Comment: Conceptualizing Atheist Identity: Expanding Questions, Constructing Models, and Moving Forward

The developing social scientific literature on atheism is still working out the social significance, meaning, and processes of atheist identity formation. Scholars are also in the early stages of analyzing and understanding the collective and organizational activities of contemporary self-identified...

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Main Author: Smith, Jesse M. (Author)
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2013
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 454-463
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