ABSTRACT
The category of the ‘non-religious’ (as with that of the ‘religious’) raises a range of terminological and theoretical issues both in general social discourse and the law, as well as within social research. The category of ‘non-religious’ includes a wide range of understandings among researchers and researched, covering both those who are quite ‘passive’ or ‘fuzzy’ about association with religion through to the more overtly ‘secularist’ as well as including some people who seem simultaneously to operate in both the ‘religious’ and ‘non-religious’ categories.
