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27 March 2020

Exploring the Richness of Nonreligion

Response
"Josh Bullock’s and David Herbert’s study advances our understanding of un/belief, belonging, and the sociality of nonreligion across different countries and generations," writes Dr. Rachel Shillitoe in response to Episode #313 "Unbelief as a Social Phenomenon"
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14 February 2020

After Secularization: Unbelief in Europe

Response
"Since the 1960s, critiques of scientific rationalism and technocracy have not withered away but have only expanded and have, in the process, diffused from the libertarian left to the new populist right," writes Professor Dick Houtman in this response to our December 2nd episode, "Unbelief as a Nuanced Phenomenon."
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2 December 2019

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

Podcast
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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2 April 2018

Magic and Modernity

Podcast
This conversation between Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerns magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such ideas are confined to the fringes in the secular, post-Enlightenment world, but this is not necessarily the case. We talk about Weber's rationalisation and James Frazer's evolutionary model of modernity, and how they relate to ideas of belief, and magic.
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1 March 2018

“Unbelief” or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Imprecise Terminology

Response
Author's cat providing pictorial representation of “‘Unbelief’: comfortable enough for now, probably need to move away from it eventually” For the past few years, the term “unbelief” has made me academically disquieted in a way I’ve never quite been able to place.
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26 February 2018

From Non-Religion to Unbelief? A developing field…

Podcast
In this podcast, we check in with the state of the field, discuss developments beyond the Anglophone "West", some of the many exciting projects being worked on under the "Understanding Unbelief" banner, the utility and pitfalls of the terminology of "unbelief", and some of the critical issues surrounding the reification of survey categories.
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