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What’s Nonreligion?

If it isn’t religion, then why are we talking about it? Learn more about nonreligion in these hand-picked episodes and discover how critical approaches to the categories of religion and nonreligion are central to the work many scholars are doing in religious studies today.

Episodes in this playlist

  1. Non-religion

    What is 'nonreligion'? Is it atheism? Is it secularism? Is it football? Today, Dr. Lois Lee, a leading scholar of nonreligion and the founding director of the NSRN, joins Chris and Ethan to discuss this emerging field of 'nonreligion' and critical methods for studying the 'nonreligious'. Tune in to learn more!
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    Lois Lee

    Ethan Gjerset Quillen

    Christopher R. Cotter

  2. Studying Nonreligion within Religious Studies

    How we can position the study of non-religion within the discipline of Religious Studies? In this episode, Chris Cotter is joined by Louise Connelly, Frans Jespers, Ethan Quillen, Steven Sutcliffe, and Teemu Taira to unpack the term 'non-religion'.
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    Teemu Taira

    Ethan Gjerset Quillen

    Steven Sutcliffe

    Frans Jespers

    Louise Connelly

    Christopher R. Cotter

  3. Five Lectures on Atheism, Nonreligion, and Secularity, from the NSRN

    In partnership with the NSRN (Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network), it is our pleasure to bring you the audio recordings of five very important lectures from Grace Davie, Humeira Iqtidar, Callum Brown, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, and Jonathan Lanman.
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    Monika Wohlrab-Sahr

    Humeira Iqtidar

    Jonathan Lanman

    Callum Brown

    Grace Davie

  4. Indian Rationalism, and a Relational Approach to Nonreligion

    It is unfortunate fact that in popular ‘Western’ imagination, the land of India is frequently orientalised, and naively conceptualized as ‘the quintessential land of religion, spirituality, and miracles.’ Although we would certainly not want to completely invert this stereotype by substituting one unnuanced and inaccurate construct for another, ...
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    Johannes Quack

    Christopher R. Cotter

  5. Unbelief as a Nuanced Phenomenon: The Sociality of Nonreligion across Europe

    Unbelief has often been defined as either ignorance or rejection of religious systems, but this week's guests David Herbert and Josh Bullock see far more diversity in the ways one can be nonreligious based on their research on Gen Y in Europe.
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    Josh Bullock

    David Herbert

    Sidney Castillo

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