Understanding Unbelief: Publications

Religious intuitions and the nature of “belief”

Alogna, V.K., Bering, J., Balkcom, E. & Halberstadt, J.B. (2019). Studia Humana, 8(1), 58-68. doi: 10.2478/sh-2019-0025

The “ghost” in the lab: believers’ and non-Believers’ implicit responses to an alleged apparition

Bering, J., Smith, S., Stojanov, A., Halberstadt, J.B. & Hughes, R.J.M. (2021). The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. doi: 10.1080/10508619.2021.1975400

Non-religion and Europe

Bullock, J. & Bullivant, S. (2021), in: Grace Davie & Lucian N. Leustean (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press), 551-567. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198834267.001.0001 

The alchemy of meditation

Farias, M. & Rahmani, M. (2020), in: Russell Re Manning (ed). Mutual enrichment between psychology and theology (Routledge). doi: 10.4324/9781315583617

Reaching for a new sense of connection: soft atheism and ‘patch and make do’ spirituality amongst nonreligious European millennials

Herbert, D. & Bullock, J. (2020). Culture and Religion, 21(2), 157-177. doi: 10.1080/14755610.2020.1862887

The diversity of nonreligion: meaning-making, activism and towards a theory of nonreligious identity and group formation

Herbert, D. & Bullock, J. (2022), in: Anne-Laure Zwilling & Helge Arsheim (eds.), Nonreligion in late modern societies: Institutional and Legal Perspectives (Springer Cham). doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92395-2

Just out of reach: An ethnographic theory of magic and rationalisation

Kyriakides, T. & Irvine, R.D.G. (2019). Implicit Religion, 21(2), 202-222. doi: 10.1558/imre.37139 

Not-knowing magic: Magical memory and ineffability in contemporary Cyprus and Orkney

Kyriakides, T. & Irvine, R.D.G. (2021). Ethnos, 86, 793-813. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1697336 

Religious unbelief in three western European countries: Identifying and characterizing unbeliever types using latent class analysis

Lindeman, M., van Elk, M., Lipsanen, J., Marin, P. & Schjødt, U. (2019). The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 29(3), 184-203. doi: 10.1080/10508619.2019.1591140

Nonreligious identity in three western European countries: A closer look at nonbelievers’ self-identifications and attitudes towards religion

Lindeman, M., Marin, P., Schjødt, U. & van Elk, M. (2020). The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 30(4), 288-303. doi: 10.1080/10508619.2020.1746984 

Nonbelief, majority church and national identity: Conceptions of cultural Christianity, the Danish “Folk Church”, and Danishness

Lundmark, E. & Lundahl Mauritsen, A. (2022). Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. 35(2),83-95. doi.org/10.18261/njrs.35.2.2

Lived Non-Belief: Non-Religion, Religion, and Relationality in Older Adults’ Worldviews and Identities

Malone, J. (Unpublished doctoral thesis)

The importance and limitations of ‘Choice’ in child-rearing practices for non-believing older adults

Malone, J. (2023). Religion. doi:10.1080/0048721X.2023.2186960

Generation Z, minority millennials and disaffiliation from religious communities: Not belonging and the cultural cost of unbelief

Manalang A.T. (2021). Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 17(2)

Meaning making narratives among non-religious individuals facing the end of life

Manning, C. (2018), in: Vern L Bengtson & Merril Silverstein (eds.), New dimensions in spirituality, religion, and aging (New York: Routledge), 59-85

How do people perceive the relationship between science and religion? The roles of epistemic and ontological cognition

Marin, P. & Lindeman, M. (2021). Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(5). doi:10.1002/acp.3836

Secular discourse as a legitimating strategy for mindfulness meditation

Rahmani, M. (2020), in: Suzanne Newcombe & Karen O’Brien-Kop (eds.), Routledge handbook of yoga and meditation Studies (Routledge). doi: 10.4324/9781351050753-21 

Believing in the powers of mindfulness: A thematic narrative approach and the development of a new scale

Rahmani, M., van Mulukom, V. & Farias, M. (2023). Minfulness. doi: 10.1007/s12671-023-02164-x

On learning from the margins: Jewish nonreligious grammars within a secular-Protestant landscape

Sheldon, R. (2019). Secularism and Nonreligion, 8. doi: 10.5334/snr.107 

Rethinking religion and non-religion in collective worship

Shillitoe, R. (2022), in: Anne-Laure Zwilling & Helge Arsheim (eds.), Nonreligion in late modern societies: Institutional and Legal Perspectives (Springer Cham). doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92395-2

Negotiating religion and nonreligion in childhood: Experiences of worship in school

Shillitoe, R. (2023). (Palgrave Macmillan).

Formatting nonreligion in late modern societies

Shillitoe, R. (in process), in: Vegard Ree Ytterbøe, (ed.) Cultures of Unbelief (Switzerland, Springer). 

‘Just leave it blank’ non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school

Shillitoe, R. & Strhan, A. (2020). Religion, 50(4), 615-635. doi: 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1758230  

Imaginary friends and made-up stories: How to explore (non)religious imaginaries without asking belief-centred questions

Stacey, T. (2020). Secularism and Nonreligion, 9. doi: 10.5334/snr.125 

Reweaving spheres: Towards an Ultimate meaning of practice

Stacey, T. (2021), in: Lori G. Beaman and Timothy Stacey (eds.), Nonreligious imaginaries of world repairing (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham), 89-99. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72881-6_7 

The amoral atheist? A cross-national examination of cultural, motivational, and cognitive antecedents of disbelief, and their implications for morality

Ståhl, T. (2021). PLoS ONE, 16(2): e0246593. doi: 10.1371/ journal.pone.0246593  

Analytic atheism: Valuing epistemic rationality strengthens the association between analytic thinking and religious disbelief

Ståhl, T. & van Prooijen J-W. (2021). Personality and Individual Differences, 179. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110914  

The stickiness of non-religion? Intergenerational transmission and the formation of non-religious identities in childhood

Strhan, A. & Shillitoe, R. (2019). Sociology, 53(6), 1094-1110. doi: 10.1177/0038038519855307

The experiences of non-religious children in religious education

Strhan, A. & Shillitoe, R. (2022). Journal of Religious Education, 70, 261-272. doi: 10.1007/s40839-022-00180-y

Nonreligious Childhoods in Contemporary England

Strhan A. & Shillitoe, R. (forthcoming). (Princeton University Press). 

Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious hypocrisy, secular morality, and Irish irreligion

Turpin, H. (2022). (Stanford University Press).

The rise of ‘no religion’

Turpin, H. (forthcoming), in: G. Ganiel & A. Holmes (eds.), The Oxford Handbook for Religion in Ireland (Oxford University Press).

Religious unbelief in Israel: A replication study identifying and characterizing unbelievers using latent class analysis

van Elk, M. & Naaman, L. (2021). The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 31(2), 51-56. doi: 10.1080/10508619.2020.1774205 

What Do Nonreligious Nonbelievers Believe in? Secular Worldviews Around the World

van Mulukom, V., Turpin, H., Haimila, R., Purzycki, B. G., Bendixen, T., Kundtová Klocová, E., Řezníček, D., Coleman, T. J., III, Sevinç, K., Maraldi, E., Schjoedt, U., Rutjens, B. T., & Farias, M. (2022, August 4). Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Advance online publication. 

‘Uncovering the self’: Religious doubts, spirituality and unveiling in Egypt

van Nieuwkerk, K. van (2021). Religions, 12(1), doi: 10.3390/rel12010020

The atheist spring? Emerging nonbelief in the Middle East

van Nieuwkerk, K. (2021), in: Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse (eds.), The Cambridge History of Atheism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). doi: 10.1017/9781108562324