This book is an investigation of what it's like to be 'not religious' in secular Britain today. It draws attention to the ways in which the 'not religious' engage with 'religious' matters.

Lois Lee is a Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent. She is a sociologist whose work focuses on the empirical study of nonreligion and atheism and, more widely, on the theory and study of culturally diverse and differentiated societies. Lois is founding director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) and co-edits the journal Secularism and Nonreligion.

• Introduction


• 1: Contradistinctions In Terms: Vocabulary for the Study of Secularity and Nonreligion


• 2: The Insubstantial and the Substantial Secular: Theories of Secularity and Nonreligion


• 3: The Unwaved Flag: Material and Banal Forms of Nonreligion


• 4: Out of the Shadows: Nonreligious and Secularist Bodies in Relief


• 5: Friends And 'Anti-Fennelists': Nonreligious Relationships and Solidarities


• 6: Disaffiliation and Misaffiliation: Identifying Nonreligion in Public Life


• 7: Beyond Unbelief: Nonreligion and Existential Culture


• Conclusion


• Appendices