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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Atheist"”.
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The Interpersonal Foundations of Anti-Atheist Prejudice
<p>Anti-atheist prejudice in the U.S. is socially accepted and rife—and not just because most Americans are religious. This research suggests that hostility toward atheists is related in part to protecting parental relationships. To the extent that they are established within parental …
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The atheist identity in the higher education workplace
… literature has examined the lived experiences of atheists in the United States (Fitzgerald, 2003; Garneau, 2012; Pond, 2015). While a subsection of this research focuses on the experiences of atheist college students (Goodman & Mueller, 2009; Mueller, 2012; Small, 2011), this study specifically …
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Thank God I'm an Atheist: Deconversion Narratives on the Internet
… - autobiographical accounts of how one became an atheist - now make up a substantial portion of atheist discourse on the internet. By analyzing the discourse employed on Richard Dawkins' Converts' Corner and exchristian.net, this thesis examines how several recurrent metaphors and literary devices …
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Do you believe in atheists? Trust and anti-atheist prejudice
… & Hartmann, 2006) have consistently found that atheists are the least liked group in America today, a type of prejudice that has barely been researched. This anti-atheist prejudice is surprising because atheists do not constitute a cohesive, recognizable, or powerful group. To the degree that …
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Constituting the un-American atheist: Eisenhower's theistnormativity and the negation of American atheists
… of the American people. In doing so he excluded atheists from his description of the American citizenry. In order to understand how atheists fit into the national imagination inspired by President Eisenhower, this thesis explores how Eisenhower talked explicitly and implicitly, through rhetorical …
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Labeling of religious non-believers: The effect of the "atheist" title on moral judgments about non-theists
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The Process and Experience of Deciding to Live Openly Atheist in a Christian Family: A Qualitative Study
Existing literature reveals that atheists are among the least accepted groups in America. This study examined the process atheists go through when disclosing their atheism to their religious family members. It is hoped that the information gained may benefit therapists who work with this population …
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The Content and Metaphysical Significance of Atheism
… as it denotes the absence of theistic belief. Atheists may be familiar with theisms and may reject them, but rejection of theisms is not a necessary condition for being an atheist. Absence of theistic belief is the only necessary condition for being an atheist, and that does not require …
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"An Alien in a Christian World": Intolerance, Coping, and Negotiating Identity among Atheists in the United States
This study is an ethnographic examination of atheists in the United States. Choosing to label oneself as an atheist entails more than a simple description of beliefs. Atheists actively create an identity which involves labeling oneself as a minority, negotiating minority status, and dealing with …
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Selling Disbelief
… Disbelief: A 20 Step Guide to Grow and Promote Atheist and Secular Groups</em> (Appendix A). The book <em>Selling Disbelief</em> outlines a six-month marketing plan and best practices for groups that are part of the growing Secular Movement.</p> <p>This project is the first systematic academic …
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Prejudice Toward Atheists in the United States as Related to Perceived Prevalence
… worldview defense by scoring higher in anti-atheist prejudice following the MS manipulation than would those in the control condition. Further, this research extends the current research into Terror Management Theory as a cause for conflict among out-groups and explores its effects on …
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The Pragmatic Problem of Evil
… are however, the theist does not convince the atheist to abandon the problem of evil. Sceptical theism allows the theist to remain unconvinced by the problem of evil and immune to any evidential argument from evil. Due to colliding atheist and theist principles, there is an impasse in the …
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Religion in the Legal Systems of Turkey and Morocco
… Ottoman Empire in 1923, it has neither been an atheist country, nor has it ever adopted atheist policies. Turkish secularism, if it can be explained in a few words, does not only separate religion and state, it also restricts and provides freedom from religion, from certain Islamic symbols and …
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A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia.
… collected through indepth interviews with 10 atheist and 11 naturalist respondents. The study examines the religious histories of the respondents, how they left mainstream religion, how they adopted a minority identity with regard to religion/spirituality, and their personal experiences living …
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Atheism and the Matter of Representation in the English Renaissance
… great Procrustean epithets of the Renaissance, “atheist” in the first century of its use in the English language could imply anything from Italianism and excessive learning to libertinism and tobacco-smoking. Its historical reception has been typified, in turn, by the scholarly slurs of …
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Examining the Nature of Socratic Citizenship: An Inquiry Into the Voegelinian Conception of Consciousness
… is neither a self-interested civic actor nor an atheist. By examining Platonic philosophy through the lens of Voegelinian thought I offer a new perspective of Socrates that addresses spiritual openness as the crux of his citizenship. Most importantly, however, this project illustrates the public …
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Concealment of nonreligious identity: Scale construction and validation
… interviews. Results showed that Southern atheists/nonreligious individuals had higher concealment scores than participants from other regions of the United States. Additionally, Southern atheist/nonreligious individuals used the stigma management strategies of counterfeiting, avoidance, …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
… audience: usurer, foreigner, Puritan, Catholic, atheist. The (mis)interpretation of these dramas by scholars and audiences alike has played a supporting role in the history and longevity of anti-Semitism. Destabilizing the idea of anti-Semitism in Renaissance drama will allow for the …
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Blessed thorns : a meditation on Spinoza's God
… of some who have labeled his philosophy both atheistic and materialistic. These two misunderstandings date back to the first time the Ethics was published, immediately following Spinoza's death. In an attempt to not only address these accusations, but as well to clear up any misunderstandings …
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The Effects of Power and Religiously Motivated Ingroup Preference on Social Affiliation
… to sit farther away from both a Muslim and atheist who were ostensibly occupying a chair at the far end of a table. Despite the increased need for social affiliation when experiencing low power, the presence of a religious outgroup member may inhibit an individual’s affiliative …
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