Pupils would be able to explore the complex worldviews and practices of people who do not identify with a religion.
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According to our 32-year longitudinal study of first year science students, belief in creationism has declined over time.
Following in the thoughtful footsteps of Descartes and Voltaire.
Some ‘celebrity’ atheists espouse the very doctrines of violence that they accuse organised religon of.
The television presenter and the scientist are having an argument about God on Twitter, and Morgan is getting a lot of stick. That’s not fair.
President Trump claims that America is a nation based in faith. A scholar says, it’s more complicated.
In the early 1900s, a group of Protestants in the US attempted a reunion of Christianity. They failed, of course, but they prompted a new dialogue.
Religions tend to portray God as deeply concerned with humans, yet we seem hugely unimportant in the vast scheme of things.
Their quest to find ‘something bigger’ to devote our lives to is only a superficial change from religion – and it ignores the psychological reality of our ever-changing self.
Logic, science and critical thinking are working miracles for non-believers.
Secular people, including atheists, in Indonesia have to assume multiple identities: they step into a religious persona for the religious family and friends, and a real one for trusted peers.
Engaging with views we disagree with is a more effective way to serve the purposes of free speech.
New research shows distrust of atheists is pervasive. This could affect the credibility of witnesses.
Even as congregations decline, chapels, meditation and prayer rooms are evolving as spaces of multi-faith worship and quiet reflection.
Distrust of the irreligious has been commonplace in the American political discourse from the founding.
Americans are increasingly choosing not to identify with any religious tradition. But this group of irreligious people is a complex one – with different relationships to religion.
Under Fidel Castro, Cuba declared itself as an atheist state. Castro’s relationship with religion, however, was far more complex. It left a deep impact on the religious identity of Cuba.
Student activists are losing faith in the legacies of anti-apartheid heroes like Nelson Mandela. Perhaps all South Africans should do the same. It may just be what the country needs for its future.
The furore over atheism in Kenya comes at a time of slow but steady growth in the number of people unaffiliated to any religion, thanks to religious discontent and access to scientific knowledge.
Pope Francis’ mercy mission to a migrant camp in Lesbos is another effort to rescue the tarnished and failing brand of Catholicism.
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Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies, Pitzer College
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Professor of Practice, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
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Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
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F.D. Maurice Professor of Religion, King's College London
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Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in British and European Politics, King's College London
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Professor, Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW
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