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'''Unaffiliated''' is a term used to refer to individuals who are not aligned with a particular religion.<ref name=Definition>{{Cite book|title=The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YR4RAQAAIAAJ&q=unaffiliated+irreligious&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=1m6uTdDDLKLa0QGT5KHCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg|quote=With respect to understanding the irreligious, however, the relevance of data on apostates depends upon the orientation they have adopted by the time they are studied (such as unaffiliated religious belief, no stated religious ...

'''Unaffiliated''' is a term used to refer to individuals who are not aligned with a particular religion.<ref name=Definition>{{Cite book|title=The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YR4RAQAAIAAJ&q=unaffiliated+irreligious&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=1m6uTdDDLKLa0QGT5KHCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg|quote=With respect to understanding the irreligious, however, the relevance of data on apostates depends upon the orientation they have adopted by the time they are studied (such as unaffiliated religious belief, no stated religious)

|publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|author=Tom Flynn; Richard Dawkins|accessdate=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Meaning">{{cite web|url = http://pewforum.org/Topics/Religious-Affiliation/Unaffiliated/|title=Unaffiliated|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|quote=Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion. This group includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> According to the [[Pew Research Center]], this group includes [[atheists]] and  [[agnostics]].<ref name="Meaning"/> However, not all individuals who are unaffiliated are [[irreligious]], although the association between the two terms is increasing.<ref name="Corrie E. Norman, Donald S. Armentrout">{{cite book|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aHSqIWYQWjUC&pg=PA127&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=YnOuTa6sKuPZ0QGM2J2QCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=unaffiliated%20irreligious&f=false|title=Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts|publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]]|quote=Unaffiliated persons are not necessarily hostile to religion or even irreligious. Yet, as the proportion of unaffiliated persons grows, it will be increasingly difficult to assume that there is a religious base, such as Reed's orthodox Protestant consensus, supporting southern culture.|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref>  

|publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|author=Tom Flynn; Richard Dawkins|accessdate=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Meaning">{{cite web|url = http://pewforum.org/Topics/Religious-Affiliation/Unaffiliated/|title=Unaffiliated|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|quote=Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion. This group includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> According to the [[Pew Research Center]], this group includes [[atheists]] and  [[agnostics]].<ref name="Meaning"/> However, not all individuals who are unaffiliated are [[irreligious]], although the association between the two terms is increasing.<ref name="Corrie E. Norman, Donald S. Armentrout">{{cite book|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aHSqIWYQWjUC&pg=PA127&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=YnOuTa6sKuPZ0QGM2J2QCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=unaffiliated%20irreligious&f=false|title=Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts|publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]]|quote=Unaffiliated persons are not necessarily hostile to religion or even irreligious. Yet, as the proportion of unaffiliated persons grows, it will be increasingly difficult to assume that there is a religious base, such as Reed's orthodox Protestant consensus, supporting southern culture.|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref>