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  • The mid-twentieth-century secularization theory – that an increase in modernity means a decrease in religion – has been largely debunked (see Berger 2014). Despite increased modernity the world has in fact become more religious; 80.8% of the global population self-identified with a religion in 1970, rising to 88.1% in 2010 and with a projected increase to 91.5% by 2050 (see table 2; Johnson and Grim 2015). At the same time, the boundaries between religion and non-religion (atheism and agnosticism) are becoming increasingly blurred. As this paper discusses, many surveys have reported that individuals are leaving institutionalized religion and becoming part of what is known as the “unaffiliated”. But who exactly are the unaffiliated (also called the “nones”)? The category of the unaffiliated has become ubiquitous in both social scientific and popular language, yet the term suffers from a lack of clarity and nuance. In many studies, the term is conflated with the non-religious, leaving a serious gap in understanding of the religious leanings of the majority of the “nones”.1 In addition, the issue of international perspective is important – what “increased secularism” means is different in the United States than in, for example, Indonesia or Kenya. It can refer to, among other variables, a decrease in attendance at religious services, changes on particular ethical issues, or selidentifying as non-religious. The purpose of this paper is to nuance the category of the unaffiliated to interpret the whole in its various parts: atheists, agnostics, and – counterintuitively – religionists. (xsd:string)
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  • In Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion: Sociology of Atheism, Volume 7, edited by Cipriani, Roberto and Garelli, Franco, 50-74, Brill, 2016 (xsd:string)
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