Register Now: Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations

This webinar – a collaboration with the International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism – brings together historians and social scientists to discuss key issues in the study of nonreligion. Happening on Nov. 6 at 1pm ET, the theme of this webinar is death and dying.

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Watch Now: Meet the Author with Ryan Cragun and Jesse Smith

In this webinar, Ryan Cragun and Jesse Smith discussed their new book, Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization (NYU Press, 2024).

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New Podcast Featuring Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme

NCF Collaborator Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme was recently interviewed on the Voice of Canadian Humanism Podcast

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Special Issue from the NCF Education Team

The special issue "Religião e escola: Democracias pluralistas, diversidade religiosa e educação pública" ["Religion and school: Pluralistic democracies, religious diversity and public education"] is now out in the journal Revista USP

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NEW PODCAST EPISODE

The fifth episode of the Lifestances Podcast, "Above Us Only Sky? Nonreligion and Changing Attitudes to Death," is now available

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The rise of the non-religious in Canada

This new article in Broadview Magazine draws on NCF research to explore the rise of the nonreligious

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New Publication

Chris Miller and Lori G. Beaman’s article, “Nonreligious Afterlife: Emerging Understandings of Death and Dying,” was recently published in Religions

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What can hiking tell us about lifestances and nonreligion?

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Nonreligion in a Complex Future

La Nonreligion dans un Futur Complexe

The Nonreligion in a Complex Future (NCF) project is an international, comparative, interdisciplinary research project which identifies the social impact of the rapid and dramatic increase of nonreligion in Canada, Australia, the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland), the United States, the United Kingdom, and Latin America (Brazil and Argentina).

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Our Upcoming Events

Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Virtual - Zoom
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Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations

Death and Dying

This webinar series – co-hosted by the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project and the International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism – brings together historians and social scientists to discuss key issues in the study of nonreligion. This webinar will focus on the theme of death and dying.

The panelists are: Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa), Carolin Kosuch (University of Göttingen), Chris Miller (University of Toronto), and Jeffrey Tyssens (Free University of Brussels).

1pm ET

Date: January 21, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual - Zoom
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Meet the Author Anthony Pinn (1)

Meet the Author with Anthony Pinn

In this webinar, Anthony Pinn will discuss his recent book, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers (Beacon Press, 2024).

12pm ET

Date: March 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Virtual - Zoom
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Meet the Author Maori (1)

Meet the Author with Masoumeh (Sara) Rahmani and Peter Adds

In this webinar, Masoumeh (Sara) Rahmani and Peter Adds will discuss their recent article, “Māori atheism: a decolonising project?” Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online (2024).

7pm ET (Thursday, March 20) / 12pm NZT (Friday, March 21)

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Recent News

All of our sub-projects continue to move forward with their research, with many now analyzing data and preparing to mobilize results. Read more about all of these projects here.

We are pleased to announce that NCF co-investigator Paula Montero’s book, Arquiteturas religiosas e a construção da esfera pública [Religious architectures and the construction of the public sphere] (co-authored with Carlos Procópio), has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the ANPOCS (Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais, National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences) Competition for Scientific Works.

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The fifth episode of the Lifestances Podcast, the new podcast from the NCF, is now available. Listen here.

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