Ticking “no religion”: A case study amongst “young nones”
Ticking “no religion”: A case study amongst “young nones”
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勾选“无宗教信仰”：“年轻人”的案例研究
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2014
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S. Wallis
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在2011年英格兰和威尔士的人口普查中，有1410万人（约占总人口的四分之一）报告称他们“没有宗教信仰”。当时，英国人文主义协会等运动团体声称，这意味着这些人是“非宗教”。但情况一定如此吗？那些勾选“无宗教信仰”的人可能更接近美国4600万成年“无宗教信仰者”，皮尤研究中心称之为“无宗教信仰的宗教人士”？或者把这些受访者称为“非宗教人士”会更好吗？本文讨论了定性研究的结果与14和15岁的英国谁同样认为是“没有宗教”。它描述了这些年轻人对“宗教”的理解和建构，在照片诱导采访中，以及他们选择勾选“无宗教”框的原因，以回答2011年人口普查中的宗教问题。影响是由研究人员在新兴领域的非宗教和世俗的研究，以及青年和宗教的研究人员在社会科学中使用的方法所使用的概念。特别是，人们对调查和访谈研究的价值提出了疑问，这些研究要求年轻人选择特定的自我认同，或对可能与其生活无关的宗教信仰和价值观的陈述作出回应。
In the 2011 Census in England and Wales, 14.1 million people, about a quarter of the population, reported that they have “no religion”. At the time, campaign groups such as the British Humanist Association claimed that this meant these people were “non-religious”. But is this necessarily the case? Might those who ticked “no religion” be closer to the 46 million adult “nones” in America, who the Pew Research Center described as “religious without religious affiliation”? Or might it be better to characterise these respondents as “a-religious”? This article discusses findings from qualitative research with 14- and 15-year-olds in England who similarly identify as having “no religion”. It describes these young people‟s understandings and constructions of “religion”, made during photo-elicitation interviews, as well as their reasons for choosing to tick the “no religion” box in response to the religion question taken from the 2011 Census. Implications are drawn about concepts employed by researchers in the burgeoning field of nonreligion and secularity studies, as well as the methods used by researchers of youth and religion in the social sciences. In particular, questions are raised about value of survey and interview research that asks young people to choose particular self-identities or respond to statements of religious belief and value that may have little relevance to their lives.