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Let’s take a deep dive into the growing role of nonreligion in American politics, with two political scientists who study it (thread) ⬇️
April 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Putting “faith" at the "center” of government is exactly what the Establishment Clause was designed to prevent.

True religious freedom can’t exist in a nation that privileges one religion over all others, or over nonreligion.
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · Aug 8
The president's faith adviser, pastor Paula White-Cain, proclaimed that in his administration, faith “has been brought back to where it always belongs, and that is center.”

Critics say the president is eroding the separation of church and state.
Trump energizes conservative Christians with religious policies and assaults on cultural targets
President Donald Trump has repeatedly delivered for the conservative Christians who form the bedrock of his Republican support.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Our latest webinar (co-hosted by @ishash.bsky.social) is now available on YouTube. This webinar focuses on how historians and social scientists can use statistics and data in the study of nonreligion.

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Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations: Using Statistics
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April 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Happening this Wednesday!

Register for the latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a collaboration with @ishash.bsky.social. This webinar will focus on science and nonreligion.

Oct 29, 1pm ET

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Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations Science and Nonreligion Renny Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal), Stephen Weldon (University of Oklahoma), Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Lauren Strumos (University of Alberta).
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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FFRF is sounding the alarm: The State Department’s move to encourage reports of “anti-Christian bias” is a clear attempt to privilege Christianity over all other religions — and over nonreligion.

This is not religious freedom. It’s religious favoritism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.
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April 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are an international research project based at the University of Ottawa studying the impacts of the rise of nonreligion, focusing on attitudes to death and dying, the environment, education, immigration, the law, and more.

Find out more about our project: nonreligionproject.ca
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November 13, 2024 at 4:25 PM
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In Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (2025), Professors Beaman, Cragun, and Ezzy identify a substantive nonreligious dimension expressed through concrete practices of care, justice, and relational engagement. politicsrights.com/community-ga...
Community Gardens and the Substantive Turn in Nonreligion
Community gardens illuminate the rise of nonreligion through lifestance, reframing ethics, community, and human–nature relations.
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March 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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If you're a researcher interested in nonreligion, atheism, secularism, etc., you should definitely follow the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project!
nonreligioncf.bsky.social Nonreligion in a Complex Future @nonreligioncf.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are an international research project based at the University of Ottawa studying the impacts of the rise of nonreligion, focusing on attitudes to death and dying, the environment, education, immigration, the law, and more.

Find out more about our project: nonreligionproject.ca
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November 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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The latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, is now available to watch on YouTube.

This webinar focuses on science and nonreligion, and features Renny Thomas, Stephen Weldon, Bernard Lightman, and Lauren Strumos.

Watch here: youtu.be/DuuLLPZb4ls
Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations: Science and Nonreligion
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November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Read the latest article from NCF team members Ryan Cragun, Hugo Rabbia, Sivert Skålvoll Urstad, and Peter Beyer. In this article, the authors draw on research from the NCF's Social and Cultural Values Survey to re-think how to best measure nonreligion.

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New Publication Alert “Measuring Nonreligion as Absence: Testing Various Approaches” Secularism and Nonreligion (2025) Ryan T. Cragun NCF Co-Investigator, University of Tampa Hugo H. Rabbia NCF Contributor, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Sivert Skålvoll Urstad NCF Contributor, University of Agder Peter Beyer NCF Co-Investigator, University of Ottawa
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Nonreligion in a Complex Future it's on BlueSky?! Nonreligion in a Complex Future it's on BlueSky!! Come on... +follow!
nonreligioncf.bsky.social Nonreligion in a Complex Future @nonreligioncf.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are an international research project based at the University of Ottawa studying the impacts of the rise of nonreligion, focusing on attitudes to death and dying, the environment, education, immigration, the law, and more.

Find out more about our project: nonreligionproject.ca
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November 21, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Missed it live? Now available on YouTube! #NonReligion #ReligiousStudies #Ottawa
April 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Coming up on April 9, Interdisciplinary Conversations in Nonreligion.

#NonReligion #Atheism #ReligiousStudies #Secularism #Humanism
nonreligioncf.bsky.social Nonreligion in a Complex Future @nonreligioncf.bsky.social · Mar 27
Register now for our upcoming webinar, "Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations: Using Statistics," a collaboration with the @ishash.bsky.social

April 9, 2025
1pm ET

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Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations Using Statistics Callum Brown (University of Glasgow), Hugo Rabbia (National University of Córdoba), Todd Weir (University of Groningen), Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme (University of Waterloo)
April 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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We're delighted to be hosting another interdisciplinary conversation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social! Join us on Wed 29 October for a discussion of the relationship between science and nonreligion, from the perspectives of historians and social scientists. Sign up: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Green poster for Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations - Science and Nonreligion. Wednesday 29 October 2025, 10.00 PT, 13.00 ET, 17.00 GMT, and 18.00 CET. Speakers: Renny Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal), Stephen Weldon (University of Oklahoma), Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto) and Lauren Strumos (University of Alberta). Logos of Nonreligion in a Complex Future, International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism, uOttowa, SSHRC CRSH.
August 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Join us on Wednesday for another "Nonreligion Past and Present" webinar, this time on nonreligion and science. In cooperation with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. As always we have great scholars in the panel. Do not forget to register to get the zoom link: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our recent event, Nonreligion in Brazil and Beyond: Emerging Approaches and Future Directions, is now available to watch on YouTube!

Watch here: youtu.be/vbySQJlwebA
Nonreligion in Brazil and Beyond: Emerging Approaches and Future Directions
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May 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
fromtherostra.com
Happy 215th birthday to Ernestine Rose, advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and nonreligion.

“In gratitude to the past we ow a duty to the future.”

#history #nonreligion #atheism #HumanRights #advocacy
January 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Join the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project's "Meet the Author" webinar on March 20, 2025, 7 pm ET. Masoumeh (Sara) Rahmani and Peter Adds will discuss their article, "Māori atheism: a decolonising project?"
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#Atheism #NonReligion #MāoriAtheism #Decolonization
March 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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New video! Are Babies Born Atheists? This is the latest episode in our ongoing series on nonreligion. This one covers everything from the cognitive science of religion to the sociology of religion.
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Are Babies Born Atheists?
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June 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Call for Papers
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Conference 8-10 September 2025 Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Scholarly discussions on nonreligion often begin by noting that nonreligion and its related phenomena are primarily studied within Western, particularly Anglophone contexts, with recent efforts to expand global perspectives.…Read more Call for Papers
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February 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Missed the recent Unearthing Lifestances book launch?? The recording is now available to watch on YouTube:

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Book Launch: Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion
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March 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Register now for the latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a collaboration with @ishash.bsky.social. This webinar will focus on the relationship between science and the natural world.

Oct 29, 1pm ET

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Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations Science and Nonreligion Renny Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal), Stephen Weldon (University of Oklahoma), Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Lauren Strumos (University of Alberta).
October 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Violation of 1st Amendment.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."..."Known as the establishment clause, the opening lines of the First Amendment prohibit the government from creating an official religion or favoring one religion (or nonreligion) over another."
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Missed last week's book launch for Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries? Watch it now here:

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Book Launch: Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries
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March 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM