On the Rationality of Semi-Secular Simultaneity : A Non-Doxastic Interpretation of the Seemingly Inconsistent Worldviews of Some Swedish “Nones”
(2023) In Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 59(4). p.589-602- Abstract
- Proponents of religious non-doxasticism standardly aim to show how a commitment to traditional religion can be rational in the absence of religious belief. We demonstrate how the non-doxastic framework can be given a much wider application. In a study on Swedish semi-secularity, sociologist Ann af Burén has discovered a pattern where subjects simultaneously entertain naturalistic and supernatural explanations of extraordinary events. We reject Burén's interpretation of these people as irrational and compartmentalized and offer a contrasting non-doxastic reading in which the subjects involved are fully rational in their belief-less engagement with significant supernatural possibilities.
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- author
- Palmqvist, Carl-Johan LU and Jonbäck, Francis
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Non-Doxasticism, Secularity, Religious Nones, Religion and Rationality, Contemporary Religion
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- Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion
- volume
- 59
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 589 - 602
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
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- scopus:85178445139
- ISSN
- 0034-4125
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0034412522000385
- language
- English
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- yes
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