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On the Rationality of Semi-Secular Simultaneity : A Non-Doxastic Interpretation of the Seemingly Inconsistent Worldviews of Some Swedish “Nones”

Palmqvist, Carl-Johan LU and Jonbäck, Francis (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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Non-Doxasticism, Secularity, Religious Nones, Religion and Rationality, Contemporary Religion
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Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion
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59
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4
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589 - 602
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Cambridge University Press
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0034-4125
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10.1017/S0034412522000385
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