Travelling to "Non-Religion in the Nordic Countries" symposium in Uppsala. The symposium contributes to Nordic perspectives on noneligion, which is a growing area within the Sociology of religion. My presentation explores interconnections between nonreligion, wellbeing and community gardens.
https://www.uu.se/centrum/crs/kalendarium/konferenser/symposium-non-religion-in-the-nordic-countries
Growing Up Godless is available to preorder, and there's a chunky discount if you use code P327 when ordering from press.princeton.edu And do get in touch if you'd like me to come and give a talk about the book!
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691247250/growing-up-godless
@princetonupress #sociology #atheism #nonreligion #religion #humanism
New article out in British Journal of Sociology of Education, exploring children's emotional engagements with the aspects of religion they encounter in schools - ranging from interest via boredom to feelings of injustice, co-authored with Joanna Malone, Peter Hemming and Sarah Neal #sociology #education #religion #nonreligion #children
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2025.2462954
From Nonreligion in a Complex Future
Meet the author webinar with Anthony Pinn on his recent book The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers (Beacon Press, 2024)
Tues. 1/21 at 12:00 pm Eastern
Register here: https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkf-CqqD0qHNZzyj-MburxcA8XH_-CwgyA#/registration
Happy 215th birthday to Ernestine Rose, advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and nonreligion.
“In gratitude to the past we ow a duty to the future.”
#history #nonreligion #atheism #HumanRights #advocacy
Check out Paula Doress-Worters’ excellent collection of Rose’s work in Mistress of Herself and her website with more on Rose's life:
https://www.pauladoressworters.com/ernestine-rose-society/about/
New open access book, including accounts from around the world:
_The Non-Religious and the State: Seculars Crafting Their Lives in Different Frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Current Day_
#nonreligion #secular #atheism #history #freethought
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111337982/html
“We are so sensitively related to each other that we can make each other miserable, adding to the hardships which existence already involves. On the other hand, we can ameliorate those hardships…”
John H. Dietrich, 1930, The Humanist Pulpit
“Why should not this life be the recipient of every grace and image of beauty that the mind can conceive?”
Susan Wixon, 1890, Freethought: Is It Destructive or Constructive?
#history #Humanism #nonreligion #atheism #secular #secularism
"We are all travelers on the same journey. Oh! how much we all need each other's tender, pitying love.... Friends, let us no longer feel unkindly to each other on account of creeds."
C. B. Reynolds, funeral oration for Ross family infant, 1885, Montezuma, NY.
"We only object to the sacred, as such, so far as it diverts proper attention from the secular. In one sense we hold all things to be sacred; in another sense nothing claims that appellation. Everything, therefore, will depend upon the meaning which is attached to the word."
Charles Watts, The Agnostic, January 1885, p. 23
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433070307289?urlappend=%3Bseq=31%3Bownerid=9007199255835261-41
One of my most rewarding Google Scholar alerts is set for the search phrases "felix adler" and "ethical culture," which gets more activity than I first expected.
The latest is by Dees whose article traces a similarity between critical responses to Ethical Culture and critical responses to indigenous religion: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jore.12484
An introduction for my new instance:
My main interests are written communication, teaching writing, and education, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement explored in various contexts: rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, organizational learning, training, research, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation.
This post goes into a little more detail: https://fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/when-disagreement-is-inclusive/
Some relevant hashtags:
Nothing against poultry, but I was not expecting to find this when I tried to get to the blog of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network:
So happy to see our article about how children become humanist published online in Sociology of Religion - with co-authors Lois Lee and Rachael Shillitoe
https://academic.oup.com/socrel/advance-article/doi/10.1093/socrel/srad050/7623471
56% say they believe in “some higher power” aside from the #God of the #Bible; 67% say they believe that #humans have a #soul or #spirit, & majorities say they believe that #nonhuman #animals & parts of #nature can have #spiritual energies.
The Pew findings seem to debunk, or at least complicate, the idea that people who leave religion are hostile toward it.
The report, from #Pew Research Center, is one of the biggest yet on the nones, & it adds detail to this constituency that has been growing across a wide variety of demographic categories, including #age, #race, #political leaning & #education level. As the nation’s fastest-growing segment of #religion (or #nonreligion) in recent decades, the nones may reflect the front line of future #spirituality.
More #Americans are #nonreligious.
New report focuses on the fastest growing segment of #religion or (#nonreligion) in decades who may reflect the front line of future #spirituality.
Over the past ½ century, the amt of Americans w/no #religious affiliation has gone from 5% to ~30%. A report released Wed on the “nones” finds that they are diverse, young, left-leaning & may offer clues to the future of making #meaning in a secularizing country.
#FFRF #secular
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/24/nones-no-religion-study/
"Across a variety of nonreligious identities, they tend to presume religion is irrational and consequently incompatible with science, idealize science, and refer to religious people as a less scientific outgroup. [...] The social imaginary that to be modern is to be secular and scientific has enduring cultural power within these Western contexts, affecting daily life."
#Secularism #Nonreligion
https://secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.5334/snr.163
Travelling from Toronto to Ottawa to attend the #NSRN2023
https://thensrn.org/events/2023-nonreligion-and-secularity-research-network-conference/
