Missed it live? The book launch for "Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries" is now online! #NonReligion #ReligiousStudies #SameSexMarriage #uOttawa
Religious literacy creates atheists...
In fact the most atheists we know are the most religiously literate!
#Atheism #Atheism #nonreligion
📢 2025 Top 10 Countdown 📈
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Social science has much to contribute to understanding the dynamic & contested landscape of #Religion #Nonreligion and #Spirtuality in the 21st century. Join us in exploring religion’s shifting place in society at the #SSSR_RRA2026 annual meeting.
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🔴NEW PUBLICATION🔴
"Religiosity is Declining BUT Giving is Increasing: Can the Nonreligious Really Be Less Generous?" by Ryan T. Cragun, Alexandra Rodriguez, Jesse Smith and David Speed.
Read the paper here:
🔗 doi.org/10.5334/snr....
#NonReligion #SociologyOfReligion #ReligiousNones #AcademicSky
🔴NEW PUBLICATION🔴
"Becoming Non-Religious: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Apostasy and Refugee Status Determination" by Lucy Elizabeth Potter.
Read the Open Access paper here:
🔗 secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10....
#NonReligion #RefugeeStudies #HumanRights #Sociology #AcademicSky
Lates project updates from Nonreligion in a Complex Future.
Read this edition of the NCF's newsletter: mailchi.mp/nonre.../feb... #Nonreligion #ReligiousStudies #uottawa #ottawa
Happy birthday to Ernestine Rose, born 1810, who was a tireless advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and the rights and dignity of the nonreligious.
“In gratitude to the past we owe a duty to the future.”
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#atheism #atheist #religion #faith #god
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Happy birthday to Ernestine Rose, born 1810, who was a tireless advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and the rights and dignity of the nonreligious.
“In gratitude to the past we owe a duty to the future.”
#history #nonreligion #atheism
Happy birthday to Ernestine Rose, born 1810, who was a tireless advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and the rights and dignity of the nonreligious.
“In gratitude to the past we owe a duty to the future.”
#history #nonreligion #atheism
📖 Leslie J. Francis reviews 'Growing up Godless: Non-religious childhoods in contemporary England', which "offers an interesting and well-documented window into the world of non-religion among primary-school students in England" #education #nonreligion #schools
Having learned of Stephen Weldon’s book at a recent webinar co-hosted by Nonreligion in a Complex Future and the International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism, I’ve started reading The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism.
It’s an engaging journey through American […]
It’s an engaging journey through American humanist thought, and I’ll post more once finished.
One new-to-me tidbit was seeing an archive photo of the American Humanist Association’s ’60s era headquarters in Ohio.
#history #Humanism #nonreligion #atheism
www.flickr.com/photos/ameri...
One of the great challenges of pluralism is letting others use their own vocabulary to describe themselves and then engaging those vocabularies rather than suppressing them.
#pluralism #coalition #interbelief #interfaith #ReligiousPluralism #nonreligion
One of the great challenges of pluralism is letting others use their own vocabulary to describe themselves and then engaging those vocabularies rather than suppressing them.
The various supremacies that suffuse our cultures—along lines of gender, race, sexuality, religion, class, and […]
Instead of a conflict narrative favored by our failing info ecosystem, what if we explored cooperative approaches, such as the religious/secular pluralism that thrived in the Civil Rights Movement or contemporary intersectional approaches like that by the American Humanist Association? […]
Instead of a conflict narrative favored by our failing info ecosystem, what if we explored cooperative approaches, such as the religious/secular pluralism that thrived in the Civil Rights Movement...
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#nonreligion #pluralism #secular #interbelief
Another edition of the Days of Secularity has just ended in Krakow. This relatively small-scale event intended for Polish secularists has been organized annually since 2011
www.facebook.com/events/polsk...
#ethnography #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
2025 First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Scholarship Awardees announced: American Humanist Association via Black Skeptics Los Angeles
#Humanism #freethought #secular #nonreligion […]
2025 First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Scholarship Awardees announced: @americanhumanist.bsky.social via Black Skeptics Los Angeles
#Humanism #freethought #secular #nonreligion
thehumanist.com/news/secular...
Enjoyed chatting with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about how and why children are growing up nonreligious, and the beliefs, feelings, and values interwoven in this for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social
#humanism #nonreligion #atheism #sociology
An updated and expanded new edition of “Religion and Modernity” finds that the importance of religion has declined dramatically across the world, even in former religious strongholds. buff.ly/aJjYN7n
#ReligiousStudies #NonReligion #SociologyOfReligion
The commemoration of the anniversary of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński’s death – a small, annual celebration for Kraków's freethinkers and secularists. (04.07.2025) -> www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
#anthropology #ethnography #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
🌟New Article🌟
“Altruistic Atheists” by Phil Zuckerman & Sophie Myers
What motivates altruistic behavior among people who don't believe in God, were raised in nonreligious families, and live in largely secular societies?
🔗 Read the answer here: doi.org/10.5334/snr....
#Altruism #Nonreligion
🔊 Editorial update at Secularism and Nonreligion 🔊
Roosa Haimila joins Isabella Kasselstrand & David Speed as co-editor!
Big thanks to Chris Cotter for 7+ years of outstanding service.
Welcome, Roosa!
#Nonreligion #SecularStudies #OpenAccess
secularismandnonreligion.org/announcement...
Terrible news, and I hope we can fight this.
Chronicling America didn't have a ton of early American freethought periodicals, but what it did index, including the Blue-Grass Blade, was a boon to readers unable to travel or pay for access.
#history #freethought #nonreligion #periodicals
Global Secularity. A Sourcebook - Volume III: Buddhist Asia - now available for download. #secularity #nonreligion #secularism
One to get in the diary now! À inscrire dans vos agendas!
#Nonreligion #secularism #étudesreligieuses #sécularisation