Hout

"A sharp return to those that say 'Hout' to us, which is a word of contempt; in Latin, _apage!

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

"Hout," said Ratcliffe, "what signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

"Hout," said Ratcliffe, "what signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

Technically speaking, Hout and Fischer estimate that “more than half” of the recent increase in nones is generationally based and about one third reflect a rise of nones among all generations after 1990.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Hout and his colleagues focus on the evangelical share of Protestants, not the evangelical share of Americans, but the logic of their argument applies to our question as well.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

The first major work on the sharp rise in nones in the 1990s was Michael Hout and Claude S.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

As Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout rightly note, the way in which religion and politics come together among African Americans is often conveniently ignored, as “partisans and commentators alike tend to dismiss it as beside the point.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Rather than evangelical faith and fervor, the dominant explanation among sociologists of religion today, most clearly articulated by Michael Hout and his colleagues, emphasizes purely demographic factors.34 Simply put, for most of the twentieth-century evangelical parents had more children than other parents.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Hout and Fischer, “The Politics of Religious Identity in the United States, 1974–2008.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Hout and Fischer have shown that the rise of the new nones closely corresponds with a lag of about half a decade to the visibility of the Religious Right in the public media, suggesting that the rise of the nones might be some sort of backlash against religious conservatism.58 Our Faith Matters surveys confirm that few of the new nones come from the right half of the political spectrum.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010