%0 Journal Article
%T Differential Anomic Responses in a Religious Community
%J Sociology of religion
%D 1978
%A Fay, Leo F.
%V 39
%N 1
%P 62-76
%X A religious community of nuns, in which institutional change has resulted in a situation of structural anomie, is examined with a view to discovering what types of persons in the community experience individual feelings of anomie. The data point to the conclusion that three variables are operating to determine individual anomie: authoritarianism, traditionalism, and a non-rational orientation.<p />
%G 
%I Association for the Sociology of Religion
%@ 1069-4404
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3710162