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  • Nonbelief is increasing in secular countries. Among the nonreligious/nonbelievers (hereafter nonbelievers), agnostics differ from atheists in terms of underlying psychological characteristics. Can agnosticism be considered as a transient stance from religion to atheism? Using EVS data from 18 Western European countries, we investigated this question both cross-sectionally and across three waves (EVS 1999 to 2017). Cross-sectionally, in more secular societies, the proportion of atheists among the nonbelievers is higher—and agnostics’ one lower. Across time, from 1999 to 2017, in most countries, the proportion of agnostics among nonbelievers decreased—and inversely the one of atheists increased, a pattern that followed secularization and seemed common across age groups. Nevertheless, the proportion of agnostics remain important. These findings suggest that the more secularism/nonbelief becomes socially normative, the more people become or “come out†as clear atheists. Agnosticism seems partly a transient convictional status from faith to atheism and partly a sui-generis category. (xsd:string)
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  • Does agnosticism precede atheism? Investigating the question in the context of Western European countries (xsd:string)
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