@jacekms.bsky.social
Cultural anthropologist and ethnographer. I explore nonreligion in Poland: contemporary secular movement, activism and history.
Very happy to have my copy of Ting Guo's new book in hand! I reviewed it for the Journal of the @aarweb.bsky.social a few months back (link below) and it's an amazing piece of scholarship, brilliantly connecting affect theory, secularism/religious studies, and Sinophone studies. Beautiful cover too!
07.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Happening tomorrow!! 👀
07.07.2025 20:13 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The commemoration of the anniversary of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński’s death – a small, annual celebration for Kraków's freethinkers and secularists. (04.07.2025) -> www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
#anthropology #ethnography #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
Register now for @nathgalexander.bsky.social's upcoming webinar with The Freethinker, "Atheism and Vegetarianism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven?" on July 8 at 2pm ET.
More details here: freethinker.co.uk/2025/05/free...
@thefreethinkermag.bsky.social
🌟New Article🌟
“Altruistic Atheists” by Phil Zuckerman & Sophie Myers
What motivates altruistic behavior among people who don't believe in God, were raised in nonreligious families, and live in largely secular societies?
🔗 Read the answer here: doi.org/10.5334/snr....
#Altruism #Nonreligion
Find out what we've been up to this past year in our annual report for 2024-25!
nonreligionproject.ca/wp-content/u...
Announcing the fourth Freethought History Webinar, 'Atheism and Vegetarianism in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven?' With Nathan Alexander. Happening 8 July. More details below!
@nathgalexander.bsky.social
freethinker.co.uk/2025/05/free...
Check out this podcast episode titled "Losing Our #Religion? It's Not That Simple" with our Director Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme:
In English: share.transistor.fm/s/b3bb6fe2
In French: share.transistor.fm/s/48a60d76
Check out this short interview I did with Ryan Cragun!
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Register now for our upcoming hybrid seminar, "Nonreligion in Brazil and Beyond: Emerging Approaches and Future Directions," featuring Olívia Barbosa, Guilherme Borges, and Renata Nagamine.
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm ET
Virtual registration here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our special issue "Biography and Secularism" is now out with Secular Studies! It is edited by Jeffrey Tyssens and me, departs from a workshop I hosted last year on biography and the history of atheism, secularism, and humanism, and includes 1+7 articles. Summary 👇
brill.com/view/journal...
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Our latest webinar (co-hosted by @ishash.bsky.social) is now available on YouTube. This webinar focuses on how historians and social scientists can use statistics and data in the study of nonreligion.
@claregs.bsky.social @hugorabbia.bsky.social @antnlj.bsky.social
youtu.be/B0ptsdqQynA
The third volume of Global Secularity. A Sourcebook (Volume III: Buddhist Asia) is now available for download (open access)-> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
#nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
Our most recent webinar is now available to watch on YouTube!
In this webinar, Masoumeh (Sara) Rahmani and Peter Adds discussed their recent article, "Māori atheism: a decolonising project?" Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online (2024)
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-W...
Green poster for Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations - Using Statistics. Wednesday 9 April 2025, 10.00 PT, 13.00 ET, 18.00 BST, 19.00 CET. Speakers: Callum Brown (U of Glasgow), Todd Weir (U of Groningen), Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme (U of Waterloo), and Hugo Rabbia (National U of Cordoba). Logos of Nonreligion in a Complex Future, International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism, uOttowa, SSHRC CRSH.
Our next seminar will be a fantastic interdisciplinary conversation about how historians and social scientists use statistics to understand the past and present of nonreligion. Hosted with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. Sign up to join us via Zoom on Wed 9 April: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
19.03.2025 19:17 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0It seems interesting -> Volume 54 (2024): Issue 3 (Aug 2024): Special Issue: Multiple Secularities in Africa, edited by Marian Burchardt, Magnus Echtler and Katharina Wilkens: brill.com/view/journal...
#anthropology #sociology #ReligiousStudies #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
Announcing the second in our series of Freethought History Webinars, ft. @Eoin_Carter on freethought and evolution - and Darwinian erasure? 15 April, 7pm UK time on Zoom. Register now and don't miss out!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
130 years ago, the Polish Ethnological Society was founded. To mark this occasion, the society is sharing photographs from various field studies. Post 35 explores the topic of the Atheist Marches: www.facebook.com/ptl1895/post...
#anthropology #ethnography #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
Check out my short interview with Sarah below!
14.03.2025 15:10 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted that @newhumanist.bsky.social has joined @humanists.uk - and entranced by all the historical covers pictured in this news item - 140 years of history! Take a look at them all... humanists.uk/2025/03/13/n...
13.03.2025 12:51 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0[6/6] 4) (Fully visible banners from right to left) ”Jędraszewski resign”; ”Stop the plague of hatred”; ”Be silent now!!!”; ”No to the language of hatred”
05.03.2025 21:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0[5/6] Photos: 1) A large banner with the text ”Jędraszewski, spreader of hatred”; 2) An argument during the protest; 3) People standing on the opposite side of the street observing the protest
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[4/6] The homily sparked a series of protests by various social groups in Krakow, including the ENOUGH Silence protest on August 4, 2019.
#anthropology #ethnography #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
[3/6] but something born from the same ideological spirit, a neo-Marxist movement. No longer red, but now draped in rainbow colors.”
For a systematic analysis of the discourse, see: dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/edab81...
[2/6] A segment of this speech had swiftly inscribed itself into the linguistic landscape and recent collective memory of Poland's ongoing cultural tensions: ”The red plague, mercifully, no longer roams our land. Not the traditional Marxist or Bolshevik ideology,
05.03.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0[1/6] The number of participants in protests organized by the ENOUGH Silence - STOP Clericalization of Poland varied depending on broader social contexts. One of the first well-attended protests I witnessed was a protest sparked by a homily delivered by the Archbishop of Krakow on August 1, 2019.
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Some dates for your diaries! Our upcoming webinars will be on Wed 9 April, 7 May, and 18 June - sign up to the ISHASH mailing list to get the Zoom links.
Full details here: atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/
Find out what the NCF has been up to in our latest newsletter!
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An interesting magazine article about atheists and the secular movement in Nigeria. -> minorityafrica.org/when-faith-i...
#nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism
New episode of the Lifestances Podcast is now available!
Ep. 6: Trekking Toward Awe: Rethinking Humans’ Experiences with Nature
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OJs...
