Week 13: The Nones
Tuesday, November 18
Hout, Michael, and Claude Fischer. 2014. “Explaining Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Political Backlash and Generational Succession, 1987-2012.” Sociological Science 1: 423–47.
Djupe, Paul A., Jacob R. Neiheisel, and Kimberly H. Conger. 2018. “Are the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to State Rates of the Nonreligious? The Importance of Salient Controversy.” Political Research Quarterly 71(4): 910–22.
Thursday, November 20
Schwadel, Philip. 2020. “The Politics of Religious Nones.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 59(1): 180–89.
Cohen, Kate. October 3, 2023. “America doesn’t need more God. It needs more atheists.” The Washington Post