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TY - JOUR
T1 - Intensified religious pluralism and de-differentiation
T2 - the British example
AU - Woodhead, Linda Jane Pauline
PY - 2016/2
Y1 - 2016/2
N2 - Drawing on surveys of religion and values in Great Britain, this paper suggests that Peter Berger’s paradigm of two pluralisms can be usefully supplemented by taking account of a third kind of intensified pluralism. This involves the breakdown of the boundaries between religions, and between the religious and the secular, and is therefore a pluralism of de-differentiation. It helps explain many features of contemporary religion and identity, including the rise of the “nones” and the increasing reluctance of each new generation to identify with religious (and secular) labels and packages.
AB - Drawing on surveys of religion and values in Great Britain, this paper suggests that Peter Berger’s paradigm of two pluralisms can be usefully supplemented by taking account of a third kind of intensified pluralism. This involves the breakdown of the boundaries between religions, and between the religious and the secular, and is therefore a pluralism of de-differentiation. It helps explain many features of contemporary religion and identity, including the rise of the “nones” and the increasing reluctance of each new generation to identify with religious (and secular) labels and packages.
KW - Religion
KW - Religious
KW - Spirituality
KW - “no religion”
KW - “nones”
KW - Secular
KW - Pluralism
KW - De-differentiation
KW - Liberal values
U2 - 10.1007/s12115-015-9984-1
DO - 10.1007/s12115-015-9984-1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 53
SP - 41
EP - 46
JO - Society
JF - Society
SN - 0147-2011
IS - 1
ER -