Jacek Michał Skrzypek

A cover of the book, Unearthing Lifestances, and a description that says: Drawing on interviews from community gardeners in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Norway, Northern Ireland, and the United States, this book explores themes of community-building, ritual, ethics, and relationships with humans, non-humans, and the natural world, arguing for their conceptualization as ‘lifestances’

We're excited to announce the publication of Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (co-edited by Lori Beaman, Ryan Cragun, and Douglas Ezzy), the first in our open-access book series with De Gruyter.

Read here for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: What do Secular Voters Believe In?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. It's a harmful myth that nonreligious people don't believe in anything. Researchers have shown that secular Americans have distinct beliefs about science and how to know the world, as well as what hap...

Excited to participate in this Zoom event about WHAT SECULAR PEOPLE BELIEVE and why it matters more than ever. Hosted by @thesecularvote.bsky.social, in conversation with @juhemnr.me, Sarah Levin, and Shakir Stephen. bit.ly/secularvoter...

Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations Science and Nonreligion Renny Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal), Stephen Weldon (University of Oklahoma), Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Lauren Strumos (University of Alberta).

Happening this Wednesday!

Register for the latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a collaboration with @ishash.bsky.social. This webinar will focus on science and nonreligion.

Oct 29, 1pm ET

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Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations Science and Nonreligion Renny Thomas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal), Stephen Weldon (University of Oklahoma), Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Lauren Strumos (University of Alberta).

Register now for the latest webinar in our series, Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations, a collaboration with @ishash.bsky.social. This webinar will focus on the relationship between science and the natural world.

Oct 29, 1pm ET

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Another edition of the Days of Secularity has just ended in Krakow. This relatively small-scale event intended for Polish secularists has been organized annually since 2011

www.facebook.com/events/polsk...

#ethnography #nonreligion #secularism #secular #atheism

Beyond Belief | Exploring India's Humanist Heritage Get an email that automatically logs you in:

Discover India's rich humanist traditions - from ancient Charvaka philosophy to modern secular ideals. Join our expert panel exploring how India's diverse #HumanistHeritage helped to shaped the world on 16 October, online. humanists.uk/events/explo...

Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe's "Growing Up Godless" Anna Strhan is reader in sociology at the University of York. She is the author of The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism ...

'Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you' - Ford Madox Ford

Marshal Zeringue asked us to put Growing Up Godless to the Page 99 test @princetonupress.bsky.social

page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/anna...

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!

Happening tomorrow!! 👀

The 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!

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Freethought History Webinar #4: Atheism and Vegetarianism in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Match Made in Heaven? With Nathan Alexander (8 July 2025) - The Freethinker An invitation to the fourth in our Freethought History Webinar series.

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...

Losing Our Religion? It's Not That Simple | Eh Sayers | Episode 25 Is that Canada in the corner? In the spotlight? Are we losing our religion?  The census found that 12.6 million people reported no religious affiliation in 2021, more than 1/3 of Canada's population. ...

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!

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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YouTube video by Nonreligion in a Complex Future Nonreligion, Past and Present: Interdisciplinary Conversations: Using Statistics

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

Volume III Buddhist Asia This volume seeks to chart and elucidate the diverse relationships between the religious and secular spheres in regions of Asia that were significantly influenced – sometimes even dominated – by Buddh...

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

YouTube video by Nonreligion in a Complex Future Meet the Author: Masoumeh (Sara) Rahmani and Peter Adds

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...

It 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

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Freethought History Webinar #2: Freethought and Evolution—and Darwinian Erasure? With Eoin Carter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ... Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Freethought History Webinar #2: Freethought and Evolution—and Darwinian Erasure? With Eoin Carter. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ...

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!

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Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Society ETNO-FOTO-TEREN 35 Karnawalizacje polskiego sekularyzmu 👉 W drugiej połowie XX wieku wśród amerykańskich sekularystów erozji ulegały przekonania dotyczące teleologicznego porządku przemian...

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!

New Humanist magazine joins Humanists UK After more than a century of collaboration, a merger has been announced between the Rationalist Association, which has published New Humanist magazine since its founding in 1885, and Humanists UK. For...

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...

[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”

[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

[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