NSRN annual lecture 2018 by Samuli Schielke: Secular powers and heretic...
In this keynote held at the 2018 NSRN conference Worldviews in World View: Particularizing Secularism, Secularity and Nonreligion, Samuli Schielke discusses secularism as a form of discursive power in...
View ArticleNegotiating Religion in Secularised Domains: Religiously Inspired Social Care...
In this post, Aura Di Febo details how religious actors in Japan employ strategies of ‘reflexive secularisation’ in order to spread religious values in secularised public spaces. “Shukyōsei [omote ni]...
View ArticleStumbling Upon the Nones
While studying the impact of social media on social relations in a medium-sized Norwegian city, and the formation of local social media clusters, our team of researchers stumbled upon a group of ex-...
View ArticleReligious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
In this post, Jolyon Thomas reflects on the anxious nature of secularity and the contested meanings of religious freedom in American-occupied Japan. Secularity is anxious. I wrote this short sentence...
View ArticleAsking grown-ups about religious unbelief
In this post, Paul Merchant reflects on the how there are differences in the way children and adults are asked about religion and (un)belief in oral history interviews. This blog is concerned with an...
View ArticleLocal Secularisms in Italy
In this post, Alberta Giorgi describes the different “local secularisms” that have taken shape in Italy that are often built directly in relation to Italy’s Catholic culture and state politics. Italy...
View Article[Event Report] Understanding Unbeliefs and Reclaiming Enchantment: The 2019...
In this post, NSRN Deputy Editors Joanna Malone and Jacqui Frost report on findings from the 2019 Cultures of Unbelief conference in Rome. They share insights from the Understanding Unbelief program’s...
View ArticleRace in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 – An...
In this post, Nathan Alexander introduces his soon-to-be-published book on the historical relationship between secularization and racism. Nathan details examples from his research into the ways...
View ArticleCFP: Sacred Journeys
Sacred Journeys 7th Global Conference University of Primorska, FTS Turistica. Piran, Slovenia. June 29 – July 1, 2020 Call for Papers More than 400 million people embark annually on pilgrimages with...
View ArticleOrganised Humanism Across the World: Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands...
In this post, Niels De Nutte provides a preview of the soon-to-be-published volume on the history of post-war organised humanism, Looking Back to Look Forward, which he co-edited with Bert Gasenbeek....
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Undoing un/belief: an orthodox Jewish perspective
In this blog, Ruth Sheldon shares some reflections emerging from her work, Jewish unbelief in contemporary Britain, which explores the meanings of ‘unbelief’, within minority British contexts. In May...
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