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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"atheism"”.
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The Politics Of Atheism In The West
Though the term "atheism" encompasses all persons without belief in god(s), more people claim unbelief in god(s) than describe themselves as "convinced atheists" in every society on earth. While the extant social science research on religion and secularism rigorously explores the nuances of the …
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The Content and Metaphysical Significance of Atheism
… paper is to answer two questions. First, what is atheism? Second, what is the significance of atheism? I contend that atheism should be understood as the absence of theistic belief and that atheism is significant only insofar as it denotes the absence of theistic belief. Atheists may be familiar …
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Atheism and Analogy: Aquinas Against the Atheists
… there appeared two closely related arguments for atheism which both utilized analogy for their own purposes. In this thesis, I show that one argument, articulated by the French materialist Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, is successful in showing that God-talk, as conceived of using the analogy …
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Atheism and the Matter of Representation in the English Renaissance
… however, is that the inclusivity of Renaissance atheism signifies vital connectivity rather than speciousness. Reading canonical works of English Renaissance poetry and drama alongside their antique and contemporaneous sources, I contend that atheism responds to the precarious hold on emergent …
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Gross Gods and Icky Atheism: Disgust Responses to Rejected Religious Beliefs
Disgust is an emotion that plays an important role in the maintenance and protection of physical and moral purity (Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999b). Using a repeated taste-test paradigm, the present research extends recent work on moral cognition by investigating disgust reactions to rejected …
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A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia.
<p>This qualitative study aims to provide a sociological understanding of people who hold minority beliefs about spirituality and religion and to improve our sociological and social-psychological understanding of a-religious and alternatively religious people. Data were collected through indepth …
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The socialist sacred: atheism, religion, and mass culture in Romania, 1948-1989
… examining how elites produced knowledge about atheism and lived religion. This dissertation analyzes elite interactions with believers and the Central Committee from 1948, when transforming religiosity emerged as a party priority, to the end of the socialist era. My chapters focus on science …
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Atheism, agnosticism, and nonbelief: a qualitative and quantitative study of type and narrative
… are a monolithic group with no variation such as Atheism or Agnosticism. Through two studies, one qualitative and one quantitative, this study explored identity of Nonbelief. Study one (the qualitative study) discovered th at individuals have shared definitional agreement but use different words …
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Exploration of Atheism as a Diversity Issue and its Implications for Best Practice in Psychotherapy: Trajectories and Strengths
<p>The conceptualization of Atheism has transformed considerably over the past century, making a transition from the taboo to a new movement of outspoken activism underlined by a strong self-identification with systemic nonbelief and sense of pride. Psychological literature has only begun to …
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Thank God I'm an Atheist: Deconversion Narratives on the Internet
… found in deconversion narratives imply that atheism is a subject-position governed by abstract laws of truth and intellectual honesty rather than individual agency, which in turn serves to imply that atheism is a subject-position immune to accusations that it is discursively-constructed and …
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The Process and Experience of Deciding to Live Openly Atheist in a Christian Family: A Qualitative Study
… 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 as they go through this potentially difficult time and adds to the currently insufficient body of research on …
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The Cymbalum mundi of Bonaventure Des Periers and the Concept of Renaissance Unbelief, 1537–1937
… be seen, erroneously, as an archetypal work of atheism over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chapter IV investigates the book’s re-publication in 1711 by the Huguenot bookseller Prosper Marchand, and the subsequent development of its reputation for intriguing scandal in the …
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'Storming the heavens': The Soviet League of the Militant Godless and Bolshevik political culture in the 1920s and 1930s
… organization charged with disseminating atheism, maintained a nationwide network of activists, published a wide array of propaganda materials, organized lectures, and agitated against religion. Examination of the League presents an opportunity to investigate how the Bolsheviks conceived …
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The social brain in human and religious evolution: Elucidating the role of theory of mind in (non)religious belief
… Theory of Mind (ToM). Hence, attempts to explain atheism have relied heavily on the assumption that nonbelievers may have a malfunctioning ToM and other traits associated with the autism spectrum continuum (ASC). However, few studies currently address this topic and the evidence either way remains …
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The Modern Ontological Argument: in Which the Position of Alvin Plantinga Is Refuted
… assumed by logically minded spokespersons for atheism and theism, respectively. Second, I introduce and explicate the work of Alvin Plantinga—a prominent proponent of theistic belief—and in such a way that it may be clearly understood even by those without prior experience of modal logic. …
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Becoming Godless: Heidegger's Nietzsche and the Eternal Return
… in framing Nietzsches philosophy as radical atheism. However, it is also shown that Heidegger limits Nietzsches radicalness by approaching eternal return as the notion that being as a whole returns identically. To that end, it is next argued that Heideggers explication of the cosmology as an …
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The Utterly Complete History of Cambridge, Massachusetts
… and converting out of the Murphy’s tradition of atheism. But when Harold dies mysteriously after claiming to be followed by a pair Gaucho detectives, Leonard is sent on a journey into Cambridge’s leftist past to figure out how Harold became alienated from his community and ended up losing a leg. …
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The Utterly Complete History of Cambridge, Massachusetts
… and converting out of the Murphy’s tradition of atheism. But when Harold dies mysteriously after claiming to be followed by a pair Gaucho detectives, Leonard is sent on a journey into Cambridge’s leftist past to figure out how Harold became alienated from his community and ended up losing a leg. …
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"An Alien in a Christian World": Intolerance, Coping, and Negotiating Identity among Atheists in the United States
… such as whether or not to disclose their atheism in a one-on-one situation, and macro-level concerns, such as whether or not to present oneself as an atheist to society by engaging in activities as a member of the atheist community.
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