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American religious exceptionalism: a standalone construct

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Sociology of religion

the claim that the United States resists secularization, tested against evidence that American religiosity has been declining by cohort.

In sociology of religion, American religious exceptionalism refers to the claim that the United States resists secularization, tested against evidence that American religiosity has been declining by cohort. This meaning comes from Voas (2016) in American Journal of Sociology.[1]

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cohort3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs evidence2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs religiosity4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four disciplinary constructs

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Voas, D., & Chaves, M. (2016). Is the United States a Counterexample to the Secularization Thesis? American Journal of Sociology, 121(5), 1517-1556. https://doi.org/10.1086/684202

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