Watch Now: Meet the Author – Teemu Taira

In this webinar, Teemu Taira discussed his recent edited book, Atheism in Five Minutes (Equinox, 2022).

NEW PODCAST EPISODE

The first episode of the Lifestances Podcast, "Being Nonreligious: Matters of Life and Death," is now available

Upcoming Conference and Team Meeting

On June 6-9, the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project will be holding a team meeting and co-hosting a conference with the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and online

NEW BOOK

Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society (NYU Press, 2023), now available from NCF Co-Investigator Ryan Cragun, Isabella Kasselstrand, and Phil Zuckerman

Who is "Us": Our Culture, Our Values, Our Heritage and the Reconfiguration of Religion

On March 9-10, the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project co-hosted a workshop with the “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities” Project at Leipzig University.

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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

Start date: June 6, 2023 - End date: June 9, 2023
All-day event
Location: University of Ottawa and Virtual
NCF Generic Event (2)

Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project Team Meeting and Conference

On June 6-9, 2023, we will be holding a team meeting and co-hosting a conference with the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. The event will take place at the University of Ottawa and virtually. Please see here for the preliminary program.

Date: June 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: University of Ottawa and Virtual
NCF Generic Event (2)

NCF Reading Group Seminar with Camila Nicácio

In this seminar, Camila Nicácio (Federal University of Minas Gerais) will lead a discussion about her recent chapter, “Law and Religion: A Comparative Approach to the Management of Religious Intolerance in Brazil and Canada.”

Please contact Nathan Alexander (nalexand@uottawa.ca) for details of how to attend in-person or virtually.

Recent Event Recordings

Meet the Author - Teemu Taira


Meet the Author - Stephen Bullivant


Meet the Author - Christopher Cotter

Recent News

On June 6-9, 2023, we will hold a team meeting and co-host a conference with the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. The event will take place at the University of Ottawa and virtually. Please see here for the preliminary program.

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

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Our project director, Professor Lori G. Beaman, has just returned from a fruitful six-month stay as Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany. While there, she gave the inaugural Leibniz lecture, “The Transformational Possibilities of Immanence.” She also collaborated with Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Christoph Kleine of the Multiple Secularities project and co-hosted a workshop, “Who is ‘Us’: Our Culture, Our Values, Our Heritage and the Reconfiguration of Religion.”

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