Film and Audio
Welcome to the Explaining Atheism programme
We meet the Explaining Atheism principal investigations and introduce the key questions and activities of the Explaining Atheism programme.
What do you mean by atheism?
We explore the difficulties of finding a ‘correct’ definition of atheism. We then argue that we can develop better explanations of atheism and agnosticism by getting more precise in our terminology and using contemporary scientific frameworks.
What is gained by disciplines working together?
We outline how researchers studying atheism and agnosticism often have different goals. We then consider what can be gained when scholars interested in general causal factors and scholars those interested in particular case studies work together.
How can you know you’ve identified a cause?
We explore the challenges of identifying the causes of atheism. We then outline some recent developments in data analysis and statistics that are advancing our abilities to infer causality and describe how we will employ these developments in our programme