Religious Ambivalence, Liminality, and the Increase of No Religious Preference in the United States, 2006–2014

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 52-63

  Hout, Michael ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

latent class model; liminal; religious identification; religious nones; religiously unaffiliated

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017569307     PISSN: 00218294     EISSN: 14685906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12314     Document Type: Article

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