Intensified Religious Pluralism and De-differentiation: the British Example

TY - JOUR

T1 - Intensified Religious Pluralism and De-differentiation

T2 - the British Example

AU - Woodhead, Linda

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016, The Author(s).

PY - 2016/2/1

Y1 - 2016/2/1

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 - De-differentiation

KW - Liberal values

KW - Pluralism

KW - Religion

KW - Religious

KW - Secular

KW - Spirituality

KW - “no religion”

KW - “nones”

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84956952868&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s12115-015-9984-1

DO - 10.1007/s12115-015-9984-1

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84956952868

SN - 0147-2011

VL - 53

SP - 41

EP - 46

JO - SOCIETY

JF - SOCIETY

IS - 1

ER -