Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
25. What Makes Atheists Different from the Rest of the Population, If Anything?
Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
Teemu Taira [+]
University of Helsinki
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Teemu Taira is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Helsinki. His publications include Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred (Ashgate 2013, co-authored with Kim Knott & Elizabeth Poole), Taking ‘Religion’ Seriously: Essays on the Discursive Study of Religion (Brill 2022) and more than 70 articles in journals and edited volumes.
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On the basis on quantitative and qualitative studies, this chapter clarifies how atheists in general differ from others in terms of age, gender, education, political preferences and other sociodemographic characteristics.