Questions You Should Never Ask an Atheist: Towards Better Measures of Nonreligion and Secularity

By Ryan T. Cragun Abstract As interest in the nonreligious has grown, attention has turned to how to measure both the growth of and variation within the nonreligious. This interest has also revealed that prior measures of religiosity are often problematic. In this research note, I detail some of these problems. For instance, some measures …