Attitudes of the Nonreligious toward Abortion, Contraceptives, and Homosexuality: Comparing the Far East and Western Europe

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dc.contributor.authorSevinc, Kenan
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:54:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:54:35Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractNumerous studies have shown that the number of nonreligious people in the World is increasing and that people without religious affiliation demonstrate more liberal attitudes on controversial issues than affiliated people. Research suggests these differences may arise from the higher education level of the nonreligious and/or cultural context. To further explore the effects of culture on the attitudes of nonreligious, I analyze data from The Global Attitudes Project-Spring (2013). The data were downloaded from the Association of Religion Data Archives, www.TheARDA.com and were collected by Pew Research Center. When the data were analyzed, 6746 of the participants (18.2%) were found to be nonreligious. Three of the countries with the highest rate of nonreligious are from Western Europe (Czechia=69.5%, Britain=44.4%, Germany=35.3%) and three of them are from Far East (China=83.4%, Japan=45.4%, South Korea=42.6%). I compared attitudes of nonreligious from these countries (N=4581) towards abortion, contraception use, and homosexuality. The results indicate that nonreligious people living in the Far East find abortion, contraceptive use, and homosexuality more morally unacceptable than Western Europeans. This suggests that attitudes among the nonreligious are not homogenous, and that cultural factors are important variables to consider in future research.
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/15709256-12341400
dc.identifier.endpage99
dc.identifier.issn0922-2936
dc.identifier.issn1570-9256
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85091537922
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage83
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1163/15709256-12341400
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/26110
dc.identifier.volume33
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000543249500005
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBrill
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Empirical Theology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectnon-religious
dc.subjectFar East
dc.subjectWestern Europe
dc.subjectcomparison
dc.subjectabortion
dc.subjectcontraceptive
dc.subjecthomosexuality
dc.titleAttitudes of the Nonreligious toward Abortion, Contraceptives, and Homosexuality: Comparing the Far East and Western Europe
dc.typeArticle

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