Are there individuals who hold no supernatural beliefs yet still believe in a soul?

Find out this and more in the newest article by Dana Gaudette, Ryan T. Cragun, and Lori G. Beaman, “Appropriating the 'Soul': Evolving Understandings in Canada and the United States"

Read here

New Book Alert

Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (edited by Lori G. Beaman, Ryan Cragun, and Douglas Ezzy) is now available

Read here (open access)

How best should we measure nonreligion?

Find out in the latest article, "Measuring Nonreligion as Absence: Testing Various Approaches," by Ryan Cragun, Hugo Rabbia, Sivert Skålvoll Urstad, and Peter Beyer

Read here

Watch Now: Meet the Author with Sarah Kathleen Johnson

In this webinar, Sarah Kathleen Johnson presented her new book Occasional Religious Practice: Valuing a Very Ordinary Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Watch here

New Article from the NCF's Education Team

Solange Lefebvre, Paula Montero, Linda Woodhead, Guilherme Borges, Annegret Marten, and Karel J. Leyva, “Changes in religious education in response to growing diversity: a comparison of Brazil, Canada and England,” British Journal of Sociology of Education

READ HERE

NEW PODCAST EPISODE

The sixth episode of the Lifestances Podcast, "Trekking Toward Awe: Rethinking Humans’ Experiences with Nature," is now available

LISTEN HERE

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

Read Here
Alt Text

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).

Learn more

Sign up for our mailing list to learn about our future events and new research findings

* indicates required

Our Upcoming Events

No events are found.

View more events

Recent Event Recordings

Meet the Author: Sarah Kathleen Johnson

Nonreligion in Brazil and Beyond

Nonreligion and the Pew Religious Landscape Study

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.

Alt Text

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

Our Partners