The NSRN Bibliography is managed by Christopher R. Cotter.

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The intention is to update the NSRN bibliography every month or so. The bibliography can  be viewed in a list organised by author surname or publication date.

• Agar, Jolyon. Post-Secularism, Realism and Transcendence: Explorations of the Utopian Content of the Religious Condition (Hardback) – Routledge. London: Routledge, 2012. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415691802/.
• Ardic, Nurullah. Islam and the Politics of Secularism: The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century. New York: Routledge, 2012. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415671668/.
• Bainbridge, William  Sims. ‘Atheism and Social Cognition’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 23–25.
• Baker, Joseph O’Brian. ‘Perceptions of Science and American Secularism’. Sociological Perspectives 55, no. 1 (2012): 167–188.
• Barb, A. ‘“An Atheistic American Is a Contradiction in Terms”: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States’. European Journal of American Studies [Online] 1 (2011): 2–18.
• Bates, S. ‘“Godless Communism” and Its Legacies’. Society 41, no. 3 (2004).
• Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. ‘Studying Atheism and the Psychology of Religiosity’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 25–27.
• Bilgrami, A. ‘Secularism : Its Content and Context’. Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 4 (2012): 89–100.
• Bociurkiw, B. ‘Soviet Research on Religion and Atheism Since 1945’. Religion in Communist Lands 2, no. 1 (1974): 11–16.
• Brissett, W. ‘Jonathan Edwards, Continuity, and Secularism’. Early American Literature 47, no. 1 (2012): 171–182.
• Bubandt, Nils Ole, and Martijn Van Beek, eds. Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual. New York: Routledge, 2011. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415616720/.
• Burris, C.T., and R. Petrican. ‘Hearts Strangely Warmed (and Cooled): Emotional Experience in Religious and Atheistic Individuals’. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 21, no. 3 (2011): 183–197.
• Caldwell-Harris, Catherine L. ‘Atheism: By-product of Cognitive Styles of Independent Learning and Systemizing’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 70–73.
• ———. ‘Understanding Atheism/non-belief as an Expected Individual-differences Variable’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 4–23.
• Campbell, Colin. ‘Analyzing the Rejection of Religion’. Social Compass 24 (1977).
• Davies, Douglas, and Hannah Rumble. Natural Burial: Traditional-Secular Spiritualities and Funeral Innovation. London: Continuum, 2012.
• Dressler, Markus, and Arvind Mandair, eds. Secularism and Religion-Making Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Farkas, S., J. Johnson, T. Foleno, A. Duffett, and P. Foley. For Goodness’ Sake:  Why so Many Want Religion to Play a Greater Role in American Society. New York: Public Agenda, 2001.
• Foust, C.H. ‘“An Alien in a Christian World”: Intolerance, Coping, and Negotiating  Identity Among Atheists in the United States.’ Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Wake Forest University, 2009.
• Galen, L.W. ‘Profiles of the Godless: Results from a Survey of the Nonreligious.’ Free Inquiry, September 2009.
• Geertz, Armin W. ‘Why Should Atheists Be “for” Anything? On the Collective Idiosyncrasies and Illusions of Cognitive Scientists of Religion’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 73–75.
• Gervais, W.M. ‘Finding the Faithless: Perceived Atheist Prevalence Reduce Anti-atheist Prejudice’. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37 (2011): 543–556.
• Ghosh, Ranjan, ed. Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia. New York: Routledge, 2012. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415536950/.
• Glenn, N.D. ‘The Trend in “no Religion”: Respondents to US National Surveys, Late 1950s to Early 1980s’. Public Opinion Quarterly 51 (1987): 293–314.
• Gorski, Philip S., David Kyuman Kim, John Torpey, and Jonathan Vanantwerpen, eds. The Post-Secular in Question Religion in Contemporary Society Edited By Philip Gorski, David Kyuman Kim, John Torpey and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
• Heiner, R. ‘Evangelical Heathens: The Deviant Status of Freethinkers in Southland’. Deviant Behavior 13 (1992): 1–20.
• Hood, Ralph W. ‘The Explanation of Atheism as an Individual-differences Variable: An Appreciative Response’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 27–29.
• Johnson, Dominic. ‘Atheists: Accidents of Nature?’ Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 91–99.
• ———. ‘What Should We Believe About Atheists?’ Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 30–32.
• Kaplan, K., S. Dolev-Blitental, T. Galatzer, and P. Cantz. ‘Individuation and Attachment in Israel and Thailand : Secular Versus Religious Jews and Buddhists’. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 22, no. 2 (2012): 93–105.
• Keene, D.L., and R.R. Handrich. ‘Panic over the Unknown: America Hates Atheists’. The Jury Expert 22, no. 2 (2010): 50–60.
• Kirkpatrick, Lee A. ‘Explaining Universality and Individual Differences in Terms of “human Nature”’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 32–35.
• Krause, N. ‘Religious Doubt and Psychological Well-being: A Longitudinal Investigation’. Review of Religious Research 47 (2006): 2887–302.
• Kuru, Ahmet T., and Alfred Stepan, eds. Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. Columbia University Press, 2012.
• Lanman, Jonathan. ‘On the Non-evolution of Atheism and the Importance of Definitions and Data’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 76–78.
• Lepp, I. Atheism in Our Time. Translated by Bernard Murchland. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
• Martin, Michael. Atheism: A Philosophical Justification. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
• Mavelli, Luca. Europe’s Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular (Paperback) – Routledge. London: Routledge, 2012. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415693295/.
• McKay, Ryan, and Daniel Dennett. ‘The Sleep of Reason: Do Atheists Improve the Stock?’ Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 78–80.
• Mullins, Mark R. ‘Secularization, Deprivatization, and the Reappearance of Public Religion in Japanese Society1’. Journal of Religion in Japan 1, no. 1 (2012): 61–82.
• Nall, Jeff. ‘Fundamentalist Atheism and Its Intellectual Failures’. Humanity and Society 32 (August 2008): 263–280.
• O Sullivan, P. ‘Sophistic Ethics, Old Atheism, and “Critias’’ on Religion’. Classical World 105, no. 2 (2012): 167–186.
• Oliphant, E. ‘The Crucifix as a Symbol of Secular Europe : The Surprising Semiotics of the European Court of Human Rights’. Anthropology Today 28, no. 2 (2012): 10–12.
• Park, Crystal L. ‘Viewing Atheism as an Individual-difference Variable: Suggestions for Advancing Research’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 35–38.
• Porcu, Elisabetta. ‘Observations on the Blurring of the Religious and the Secular in a Japanese Urban Setting’. Journal of Religion in Japan 1, no. 1 (2012): 83–106.
• Prodromou, E. ‘Torn Country : Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism’. South European Society and Politics 17, no. 1 (2012): 117–119.
• Pruyser, P.W. ‘Problems of Definition and Conception in the Psychological Study of Religious Unbelief’. In Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion, edited by A.W. Eister. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
• Reader, Ian. ‘Secularisation, R.I.P.? Nonsense! The Rush Hour Away from the Gods and the Decline of Religion in Contemporary Japan’. Journal of Religion in Japan 1, no. 1 (2012): 7–36.
• Ritchey, J. ‘“One Nation Under God”:  Identity and Resistance in a Rural Atheist Organization’. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21, no. 2 (Summer 2009).
• Rossano, Matt J. ‘Ritually Faking Belief’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 81–83.
• Ruby, T.F. ‘Spirituality, Religion, Secularism and the Academy : Reflections on “The Muslim Woman’s Question’. Canadian Woman Studies 29, no. 1; /2 (2011): 171–175.
• Saler, Benson, and Charles A. Ziegler. ‘On Affirmations of the Realities of Religion and Atheism’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 83–85.
• Schloss, Jeffrey P. ‘Whence Atheists: Outliers or Outlaws?’ Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 86–89.
• Schumaker, J. ‘Mental Health Consequences of Irreligion’. In Religion and Mental Health, edited by J. Schumaker, 54–69. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Shook, John R. ‘Atheists Are Rejecting Today’s Culturally Evolved Religions, Not a “first” Natural Religion’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 38–40.
• Smith, Tom W. ‘Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries’. NORC/University of Chicago (2012). http://www.domradio.de/comet/pdf/beliefs_about_god_report.pdf.
• Spickard, James V. ‘Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Review’. Sociology of Religion 73, no. 1 (January 3, 2012): 94–96.
• Vetter, G.B., and M. Green. ‘Personality and Group Factors in the Making of Atheists’. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 27 (1932): 179–194.
• Vickers, L. ‘Twin Approaches to Secularism : Organized Religion and Society Dagger’. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32, no. 1 (2012): 197–210.
• Vitz, P.C. Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 1999.
• Wildman, Wesley J., Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. ‘The Scientific Study of Atheism’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 1–3.