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Fewer people are affiliated with religion in the United States, but that hardly means that they’re all atheists. Anthony Bradshaw/Photographer's Choice RF via Getty Images

The number of religious ‘nones’ has soared, but not the number of atheists – and as social scientists, we wanted to know why

Social factors, from wealth to politics, may shape whether people who do not believe in God identify as an atheist.

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