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Unbelief within marginalized communities

Dr. Dena M. Abbott, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Melanie Brewster, Teachers College, Columbia University

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Explaining Arab atheism in the digital age

Professor Stephen Bullivant, Director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society and Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

Dr. Yosr Ben Slima, Postdoctoral Researcher, St Mary’s University, Twickenham

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Social location and predictors of adopting an atheistic worldview in the United States

Dr. Katie E. Corcoran, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University

Dr. Christopher P. Scheitle, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University

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Atheism @ virtual world: A study of atheist influencers

Dr. Di Di, Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University

Dr. Esther Chan, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Worldview formation and death anxiety: Explaining atheism after a near-death experience

Dr. Alex Fry, Department of Social Sciences and Social Work, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences

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Norm psychology and the lifecourse causes of non-belief: A comparative study with Hindus, Muslims and Christians in Mauritius

Dr. Matthew Gervais, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London

Dr. Nachita Rosun, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London

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Studies on atheism in the German Democratic Republic

Dr. Eva Guigo-Patzelt, Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux, EHESS: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

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Religious skepticism in China: An historical and ethnographic investigation

Dr. Ze Hong, Department of Sociology, University of Macau

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Existential security, secular institutions, and group norms: Explaining the rise of non-theism

Dr. Martin Lang, Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA), Masaryk University

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The origins of disbelief among Polish younger and older adults: The interactive role of analytic thinking and cultural learning of religion

Dr. Paweł Łowicki, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw

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Explaining Nordic atheism: How cultural learning mechanisms predict atheism in Nordic cultural contexts

Dr. Valerie van Mulukom, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University (UK)

Dr. Anne Lundahl Mauritsen, Department for the Study of Religion, Institute of Culture and Society, Aarhus University (DK)

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Atheism and its origins in nineteenth century England and Scotland

Professor David Nash, School of History, Philosophy and Culture, Oxford Brookes University

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Explaining Māori atheism in Aotearoa New Zealand

Dr. Masoumeh (Sara) Rahmani, School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

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Becoming non-believers: Explaining atheism in childhood

Dr. Anna Strhan, Department of Sociology, University of York

Dr. Lois Lee, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent

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The growth of atheism and agnosticism in three of Europe’s ethno-religious secularisation outliers

Dr. Hugh Turpin, Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London

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