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2012

  • 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/.
  • Aldridge, D. ‘The Atheist’s Creed’. British Journal of Religious Education 34, no. 1 (2012): 105–108.
  • 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.
  • Barre, E.A. ‘Muslim Imaginaries and Imaginary Muslims : Placing Islam in Conversation with A Secular Age’. Journal of Religious Ethics 40, no. 1 (2012): 138–148.
  • Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. ‘Studying Atheism and the Psychology of Religiosity’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 25–27.
  • Bell, M. ‘Spectres of False Divinity – Hume’s Moral Atheism’. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20, no. 1 (2012): 198–204.
  • Bilgrami, A. ‘Secularism : Its Content and Context’. Economic and Political Weekly 47, no. 4 (2012): 89–100.
  • Brissett, W. ‘Jonathan Edwards, Continuity, and Secularism’. Early American Literature 47, no. 1 (2012): 171–182.
  • Bullivant, Stephen, and Lois Lee. ‘Interdisciplinary Studies of Non-religion and Secularity: The State of the Union’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • 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.
  • Cragun, Ryan, Barry A. Kosmin, Ariela Keysar, Joseph H. Hammer, and Michael Nielsen. ‘On the Receiving End: Discrimination Toward the Non-Religious in the United States’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • Davies, Douglas, and Hannah Rumble. Natural Burial: Traditional-Secular Spiritualities and Funeral Innovation. London: Continuum, 2012.
  • 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.
  • 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/.
  • Gle, N. ‘Post-Secular Turkey’. New Perspectives Quarterly 29, no. 1 (2012): 7–11.
  • 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.
  • Gutkowski, Stacey. ‘The British Secular Habitus and the War on Terror’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • Hart, W.D. ‘Naturalizing Christian Ethics : A Critique of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age’. Journal of Religious Ethics 40, no. 1 (2012): 149–170.
  • Hood, Ralph W. ‘The Explanation of Atheism as an Individual-differences Variable: An Appreciative Response’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 27–29.
  • Ipgrave, J. ‘Conversations Between the Religious and Secular in English Schools’. Religious Education 107, no. 1 (2012): 30–48.
  • 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.
  • Kirkpatrick, Lee A. ‘Explaining Universality and Individual Differences in Terms of “human Nature”’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 32–35.
  • Knowles, C. ‘Religion in Largely Secular Societies’. Sociology Review 21, no. 3 (2012): 20–23.
  • Kuru, Ahmet T., and Alfred Stepan, eds. Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. Columbia University Press, 2012.
  • LaBouff, J., W. Rowatt, M. Johnson, and C. Finkle. ‘Differences in Attitudes Toward Outgroups in Religious and Nonreligious Contexts in a Multinational Sample : A Situational Context Priming Study’. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 22, no. 1 (2012): 1–9.
  • Lanman, Jonathan. ‘On the Non-evolution of Atheism and the Importance of Definitions and Data’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 76–78.
  • ———. ‘The Importance of Religious Displays for Belief Acquisition and Secularization’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • Lee, Lois. ‘Research Note: Talking About a Revolution: Terminology for the New Field of Non-religion Studies’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • Managhan, T. ‘Highways, Heroes, and Secular Martyrs : the Symbolics of Power and Sacrifice’. Review of International Studies 38, no. 1 (2012): 97–118.
  • Mavelli, Luca. Europe’s Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular (Paperback) – Routledge. London: Routledge, 2012. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415693295/.
  • McClay, W.M. ‘Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age’. Journal of Church and State 54, no. 1 (2012): 122–124.
  • McKay, Ryan, and Daniel Dennett. ‘The Sleep of Reason: Do Atheists Improve the Stock?’ Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 78–80.
  • Merino, Stephen M. ‘Irreligious Socialization? The Adult Religious Preferences of Individuals Raised with No Religion PDF Stephen M. Merino’. Secularism and Nonreligion 1 (2012): 1–16.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pasquale, Frank L. ‘The Social Science of Secularity’. Free Inquiry 33, no. 2 (2012): 17–23.
  • 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.
  • Quack, Johannes. Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • ———. ‘Organised Atheism in India: An Overview’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • 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.
  • Rossano, Matt J. ‘Ritually Faking Belief’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 81–83.
  • 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.
  • Shah, S. ‘Muslim Schools in Secular Societies : Persistence or Resistance!’ British Journal of Religious Education 34, no. 1 (2012): 51–65.
  • 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.
  • Vickers, L. ‘Twin Approaches to Secularism : Organized Religion and Society Dagger’. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32, no. 1 (2012): 197–210.
  • Voas, David, and Siobhan McAndrew. ‘Three Puzzles of Non-religion in Britain’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 27, no. 1 (2012).
  • Wildman, Wesley J., Richard Sosis, and Patrick McNamara. ‘The Scientific Study of Atheism’. Religion, Brain & Behavior 2, no. 1 (2012): 1–3.

2011

  • Alicino, F. 2011. ‘The Collaborations-Relations Between Western (Secular) Law and Religious Nomoi Groups in Today’s Multicultural Context : The Cases of France and Canada’. Transition Studies Review 18 (2): 430–444.
  • Asad, Talal. 2011. ‘Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics’. Cultural Anthropology 26 (4) (November 1): 657–675. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01118.x.
  • Aston, Katie. 2011. Atheism Explained by Jonathan Lanman (NSRN Annual Lecture 2011). NSRN Events Report Series [online]. NSRN. http://nsrn.net/events/events-reports.
  • 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.
  • Baumeister, A. 2011. ‘The Use of -Public Reason- by Religious and Secular Citizens: Limitations of Habermas- Conception of the Role of Religion in the Public Realm’. Constellations 18 (2): 222–243.
  • Bruce, Steve. 2011. Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 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/.
  • Bullivant, Stephen. 2011a. ‘Teaching Atheism and Nonreligion: Challenges and Opportunities’. Discourse 10 (2): 93–110.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘Defining “Atheism”: a Modest Proposal (unpublished Paper)’. In Virtual Conference: Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.
  • 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.
  • Calhoun, C., M. Juergensmeyer, and J. Vanantwerpen. 2011. Rethinking Secularism. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Chatterjee, Nandini. 2011. The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Connolly, W.E. 2011. ‘Some Theses on Secularism’. Culural Anthropology 26 (4): 648–656.
  • Cotter, Christopher R. 2011a. ‘Consciousness Raising: The Critique, Agenda, and Inherent Precariousness of Contemporary Anglophone Atheism’. International Journal for the Study of New Religions 2 (1): 77–103.
  • ———. 2011b. Qualitative Methods Workshop (NSRN Methods for Nonreligion and Secularity Series). NSRN  Events Report Series [online]. NSRN. http://www.nsrn.net/events/events-reports.
  • ———. 2011c. ‘Toward a Typology of “Nonreligion”: A Qualitative Analysis of Everyday Narratives of Scottish University Students’. Unpublished MSc by Research Dissertation, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.
  • Cragun, R., and J.H. Hammer. 2011. ‘“One Person”s Apostate Is Another Person’s Convert’: What Terminology Tells Us About Pro-religious Hegemony in the Sociology of Religion’. Humanity and Society 35: 159–175.
  • Day, Abby. 2011. Believing in Belonging: Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Dembski, W.A. 2011. ‘How to Debate an Atheist-If You Must’. Southwestern Journal of Theology 54 (1): 55–70.
  • Denton-Borhaug, Kelly. 2011. U.S. War-culture, Sacrifice and Salvation. London: Equinox.
  • Dressler, Markus, and Arvind Mandair, eds. Secularism and Religion-Making Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Dueck, R. 2011. ‘Angry at the God Who Isn’t There: The New Atheism as Theodicy’. Direction 40 (1): 3–16.
  • Ecklund, E.H., and Kristen Schultz Lee. 2011. ‘Atheists and Agnostics Negotiate Religion and Family’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 50 (4): 728–743.
  • Edis, Taner. 2011. ‘Defending Science and Nonbelief’. Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40 (4) (September 30). http://www.equinoxjournals.com/BSOR/article/view/11423.
  • Eipper, C. 2011a. ‘The Spectre of Godlessness: Making Sense of Secularity’. Australian Journal of Anthropology 22 (1): 14–39.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘The Spectre of Godlessness: Making Sense of Secularity’. Australian Journal of Anthropology 22 (1): 14–39.
  • Ellis, Thomas B. 2011. ‘Chasing Cosmic Tennis Balls’. Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40 (4) (September 30). http://www.equinoxjournals.com/BSOR/article/view/10865.
  • Engelke, Matthew. 2011. ‘The Anthropology of After Religion’. In Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-Searching Belief and Experience Workshop. University College London.
  • Engler, S. 2011. ‘`Religion,’ `the Secular’ and the Critical Study of Religion’. Studies in Religion 40 (4): 419–442.
  • Fitzgerald, Timothy. 2011. ‘A Response to Steven Engler,’Religion,’ “the Secular” and the Critical Study of Religion’’’. Studies in Religion 40 (4): 443–455.
  • Fox, J. 2011. ‘Separation of Religion and State and Secularism in Theory and in Practice’. Religion, State and Society 39 (4): 384–401.
  • Galen, L.W., C.M. Smith, N. Knapp, and N. Wyngarden. 2011. ‘Perceptions of Religious and Nonreligious Targets: Exploring the Effects of Perceivers’ Religious Fundamentalism’. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 41 (9): 2123–2143.
  • Gärtner, Christel. 2011. ‘Das Theodizeeproblem Unter Säkularen Bedingungen–Anschlüsse an Max Webers Religionssoziologie’. In Religionen Verstehen. Zur Aktualität Von Max Webers Religionssoziologie, ed. Agathe Bienfait, 271–289. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Gelot, L.M. 2011. ‘Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and the Theological Origins of Secular International Politics’. Political Theology 12 (4): 553–576.
  • Gervais, W.M. ‘Finding the Faithless: Perceived Atheist Prevalence Reduce Anti-atheist Prejudice’. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37 (2011): 543–556.
  • Gervais, W.M., Azim F. Shariff, and Ara Norenzayan. 2011. ‘Do You Believe in Atheists? Distrust Is Central to Anti-Atheist Prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social’. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 101 (6): 1189–1206.
  • Gibson, Nicholas J.S., and Kirsten Barnes. 2011a. ‘Toward a Psychology of Atheism I: Measuring Dimensions of Non-religiosity’. In Bari, Italy.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘Toward a Psychology of Atheism II: An Empirically Derived Typology of Non-religiosity’. In Biennial Congress of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion. Bari, Italy.
  • Godina, E.Z. 2011. ‘Secular Trends in Some Russian Populations’. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 68 (4): 367–377.
  • Grayling, A.C. 2011. The Good Book: A Humanist Bible. New York: Walker & Co.
  • Griffiths, D.H. 2011. ‘Defining the “Secular’’ in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Era : Some Cases and Controversies’. Otago Law Review 12 (3): 497–524.
  • Grigoriev, S. 2011. ‘Rorty, Religion, and Humanism’. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (3): 187–201.
  • Gutkowski, Stacey. 2011. ‘Misreading Islam in Iraq : Secular Misconceptions and British Foreign Policy’. Security Studies 20 (4): 592–623.
  • Hale, F. 2011. ‘Religious Disbelief and Intelligence: The Failure of a Contemporary Attempt to Correlate National Mean IQs and Rates of Atheism’. Journal for the Study of Religion 24 (1): 37–54.
  • Halikiopolou, Daphne. 2011. Patterns of Secularization: Church, State and Nation in Greece and the Republic of Ireland. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Hill, J.P, and B. Vaidyanathan. 2011. ‘Substitution or Symbiosis? Assessing the Relationship Between Religious and Secular Giving’. Social Forces 90 (1): 157–208.
  • Hirschkind, Charles. 2011. ‘Is There a Secular Body?’ Cultural Anthropology 26 (4) (November 1): 633–647. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01116.x.
  • Hirschkind, Charles, and Matthew Scherer. 2011. ‘Introduction’. Cultural Anthropology 26 (4) (November 1): 620–620. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01114.x.
  • Hwang, K., J.H. Hammer, and R. Cragun. 2011. ‘Extending the Religion-health Research to Secular Minorities: Issues and Concerns’. Journal of Religion and Health.
  • Hyman, Gavin. 2011. ‘A Short History of Atheism’. Theology 114 (5): 381–385.
  • Iqtidar, Humeira. 2011. Secularizing Islamists? Jama’at-e-Islami and Jama’at-ud-Da’wa in Urban Pakistan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Jaarsma, A.S. 2011. ‘Becoming Student : Reflections on the Post-Secular Classroom’. Listening 46 (3): 218–240.
  • Jansen, Y. 2011. ‘Postsecularism, Piety and Fanaticism : Reflections on Jurgen Habermas’ and Saba Mahmood’s Critiques of Secularism’. Philosophy and Social Criticism 37 (9): 977–998.
  • Jones, K. 2011. ‘Atheism and Religious Pluralism Navigating Between Freedom of and Freedom from Religion’. Free Inquiry 31 (5): 50–52.
  • Joshi, S.T. 2011. The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism. New York: Prometheus.
  • Kane, A. 2011. ‘Individualism, Atheism, and the Search for God in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road’. Foundation (111): 68–73.
  • Kaya, A. 2011. ‘Modernism, Secularism, Democracy and the AKP in Turkey’. South European Society and Politics 16 (4): 581–586.
  • Knott, Kim. 2011. ‘Religion in the British Media’. Britain in 2011. http://www.esrc.ac.uk/publications/britain-in/.
  • Kosmin, B. 2011a. ‘The Future of Irreligion, Part 1’. Free Inquiry.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘The Future of Irreligion, Part 2’. Free Inquiry.
  • Krause, N. 2011. ‘Do Church-based Social Relationships Influence Social Relationships in the Secular World?’ Mental Health Religion and Culture 14 (9): 877–897.
  • Ladwig, P. 2011. ‘The Genesis and Demarcation of the Religious Field : Monasteries, State Schools, and the Secular Sphere in Lao Buddhism (1893-1975)’. Sojourn 26 (2): 196–223.
  • Laing, J.D. 2011. ‘Introduction to New Atheism : Apologetics and the Legacy of Alvin Plantinga’. Southwestern Journal of Theology 54 (1): 6–12.
  • Lakeland, P. 2011. ‘The U.S. Church, the Secular World and the Temptation to “Integrism’’’. Horizons 38 (1): 7–35.
  • Lambert, F. 2011. ‘Religion in the Public Square : Interactions Between the Sacred and the Secular in Colonial and Revolutionary America’. Reviews in American History 39 (4): 594–599.
  • Lanman, Jonathan. 2011a. ‘Thou Shalt Believe -: Or Not.’ New Scientist.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘Religion Is Irrational, but so Is Atheism’. New Scientist, March 23. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928055.600-religion-is-irrational-but-so-is-atheism.html.
  • Lee, Lois. 2011a. ‘From Neutrality to Dialogue: Constructing the Religious Other in British Non-religious Discourses’. In Modernities Revisited, ed. Maren Behrensen, Lois Lee, and Ahmet S. Tekelioglu. Vienna: IWM Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conferences 2011., 29.
  • ———. 2011b. ‘NSRN Glossary’. In NSRN Terminology – Virtual Conference: Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. http://nsrn.net/events/nsrn-events/.
  • Levine, Michael. 2011. ‘New Atheism, Old Atheism and the Rationality of Religious Belief’. In The Relationship of Philosophy to Religion Today, ed. Paolo Diego Bubbio and Philip Andrew Quadrio, 154–177. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Lipton, G.A. 2011. ‘Secular Sufism: Neoliberalism, Ethnoracism, and the Reformation of the Muslim Other’. Muslim World 101 (3): 427–440.
  • Lowis, M.J., A.J. Jewell, M.I. Jackson, and R. Merchant. 2011. ‘Religious and Secular Coping Methods Used by Older Adults : An Empirical Investigation’. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging 23 (4): 279–303.
  • Luehrmann, S. 2011. Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic. Indiana: Indiana University Press.
  • Lutz, D. 2011. ‘The Dead Still Among Us: Victorian Secular Relics, Hair Jewelry, and Death Culture’. Victorian Literature and Culture 39 (1): 127–142.
  • Mantell, J., J. Correale, J. Adams-Skinner, and Z. Stein. 2011. ‘Conflicts Between Conservative Christian Institutions and Secular Groups in sub-Saharan Africa: Ideological Discourses on Sexualities, Reproduction and HIV/AIDS’. Global Public Health 6 (SUPP/2): 192–209.
  • McCloud, Sean Patrick. 2011. ‘Beliefs and Habituated Bodies: A Response to Taner Edis, Science and Nonbelief’. Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40 (4) (September 30). http://www.equinoxjournals.com/BSOR/article/view/10727.
  • Meyer, W. 2011. ‘Thomas Nagel, Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament : Essays 2002–2008’. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (3): 251–253.
  • Mikoil, B. 2011. ‘Neither Islamist nor Secular: a Rational Middle-East’. Revue Internationale Et Strategique (83): 103–110.
  • Mumford, Lorna. 2011. Atheism and Anthropology: Researching Atheism and Self-Searching Belief and Experience Workshop. NSRN Events Report Series [online]. NSRN. http://www.nsrn.net/events/events-reports.
  • Oppy, Graham. 2011. ‘“New Atheism” Versus “Christian Nationalism”’. In The Relationship of Philosophy to Religion Today, ed. Paolo Diego Bubbio and Philip Andrew Quadrio, 118–153. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Parmeggiani, F. 2011. ‘Speaking of God : The Post-Secular Challenge for Italian Feminist Thought and Practices’. Annali D Italianistica 29: 417–430.
  • Quack, Johannes. 2011. ‘Modes of Non-religiosity (unpublished Paper)’. In NSRN Terminology – Virtual Conference: Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.
  • Reed, Randall William. 2011. ‘The Problem of Ideology in Biblical Studies’. Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40 (4) (September 30). http://www.equinoxjournals.com/BSOR/article/view/10537.
  • Ritter, R.S., and J.L. Preston. 2011. ‘Gross Gods and Icky Atheism: Disgust Responses to Rejected Religious Beliefs’. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47 (6): 1225–1230.
  • Rozik, E. 2011. ‘Sacred Narratives in Secular Contexts’. European Legacy 16 (6): 769–784.
  • 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.
  • Scaperlanda, M. 2011. ‘Secular Not Secularist America’. Campbell Law Review 33 (3): 569–590.
  • Scherer, M. 2011. ‘Landmarks in the Critical Study of Secularism’. Culural Anthropology 26 (4): 621–632.
  • Schmidt, L.E. 2011. ‘A Society of Damned Souls: Atheism and Irreligion in the 1920s’. Perspectives in Religious Studies 38 (2): 215–226.
  • Siner, Samuel E. 2011. ‘A Theory of Atheist Student Identity Development’. Journal of the Indiana University Student Personnel Association (May 2): 14–21.
  • Smith, J.M. 2011. ‘Becoming an Atheist in America: Constructing Identity and Meaning from the Rejection of Theism’. Sociology of Religion 72 (2): 215–237.
  • Stausberg, Michael, and Steven Engler, eds. 2011. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. London: Routledge.
  • Timmons, S., and A. Narayanasamy. 2011. ‘How Do Religious People Navigate a Secular Organisation? Religious Nursing Students in the British National Health Service’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 26 (3): 451–465.
  • Vanderputten, S., and D.J. Reilly. 2011. ‘Reconciliation and Record Keeping : Heresy, Secular Dissent and the Exercise of Episcopal Authority in Eleventh-century Cambrai’. Journal of Medieval History 37 (4): 343–357.
  • Vargas, N. 2011. ‘Retrospective Accounts of Religious Disaffiliation in the United States: Stressors, Skepticism, and Political Factors’. Sociology of Religion (October 11). doi:10.1093/socrel/srr044. http://secularismandnonreligion.org/index.php/snr/article/view/5.
  • Verkaaik, Oskar, and Rachel Spronk. 2011. ‘Secular Practice: Notes on an Ethnography of Secularism’. Focaal 59: 83–88.
  • Vesperi, M.D. 2011. ‘A Performance Studies Approach to Age and Secular Ritual’. Generations 35 (3): 74–79.
  • Watson, B. 2011. ‘Democracy, Religion and Secularism: Reflections on the Public Role of Religion in a Modern Society’. Journal of Beliefs and Values 32 (2): 173–183.
  • Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika. 2011. ‘“Forced” Secularity? On the Appropriation of Repressive Secularization’. Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe 4 (1): 63–77.
  • Yadgar, Y. 2011. ‘Jewish Secularism and Ethno-National Identity in Israel : The Traditionist Critique’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 26 (3): 467–481.
  • Zeller, Benjamin. 2011. ‘Religions and Science Beyond Belief:  Comments on Taner Edis’s Science and Nonbelief’. Bulletin for the Study of Religion 40 (4) (September 30). http://www.equinoxjournals.com/BSOR/article/view/10859.
  • Zuckerman, Phil. 2011. Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.

2010

  • Altemeyer, Bob. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in North America’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 1–21. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Amarasingam, Amarnath. 2010a. ‘To Err in Their Ways: The Attribution Biases of the New Atheists’. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 39 (4): 573–588.
  • ———. 2010b. ‘What Is the New Atheism? A Thematic Overview’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Amarasingam, Amarnath, ed. 2010c. Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bagg, Samuel, and David Voas. 2010. ‘The Triumph of Indifference: Irreligion in British Society’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 91–111. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. 2010. ‘Morality and Immorality Among the Irreligious’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 113–148. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Bering, Jesse. 2010a. ‘Atheism Is Only Skin Deep: Geertz and Markússon Rely Mistakenly on Sociodemographic Data as Meaningful Indicators of Underlying Cognition’. Religion 40: 166–168.
  • ———. 2010b. ‘The Nonexistent Purpose of People’. The Psychologist 23: 290–293.
  • Biale, D. 2010. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Block, Tina. 2010. ‘Religion, Irreligion, and the Difference Place Makes: The Case of the Postwar Pacific Northwest’. Social History 43 (85): 1–30.
  • Borer, Michael Ian. 2010. ‘The New Atheism and the Secularisation Thesis’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam, 125–137. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Bradley, Arthur, and Andrew Tate. 2010. The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic After 9/11. Continuum International Publishing Group.
  • Bullivant, Stephen. 2010. ‘The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?’ In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam, 109–124. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Cady, Daniel. 2010. ‘Freethinkers and Hell Raisers: The Brief History of American Atheism and Secularism’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 229–249. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Cady, Linell, and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. 2010. Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age. Palgrave.
  • Cannell, Fenella. 2010. ‘Anthropology of Secularism’. Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 85–100.
  • Cimino, Richard, and Christopher Smith. 2010. ‘The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam, 139–156. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Cliteur, Paul. 2010. The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Cragun, R., and R. Lawson. 2010. ‘The Secular Transition: Worldwide Growth of Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Seventh-day Adventists’. Sociology of Religion.
  • Day, Abby. 2010. ‘“Believing in Belonging”: An Exploration of Young People’s Social Contexts and Constructions of Belief’. In Religion and Youth, ed. Sylvia Collins-Mayo and Pink Dandelion, 97–103. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Demerath, Jay, III. 2010. ‘Defining Religion and Modifying Religious “Bodies”: Secularizing the Sacred and Sacralising the Secular’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 251–269. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Dennett, Daniel C., and L. LaScola. 2010. ‘Preachers Who Are Not Believers’. Evolutionary Psychology 8: 121–150.
  • Eller, Jack David. 2010a. ‘What Is Atheism?’ In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 1–18. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • ———. 2010b. ‘Atheism and Secularity in the Arab World’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 113–137. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Falconi, Ryan C. 2010. ‘Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam, 203–224. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Fuller, Steve. 2010. ‘What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?’ In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, 57–77. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Furseth, Inger. 2010. ‘Atheism, Secularity, and Gender’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 209–227. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Gearing, R.E., and D. Lizardi. 2010. ‘Religion and Suicide: Buddhism, Native American and African Religions, Atheism, and Agnosticism’. Journal of Religion and Health 49 (3): 377–384.
  • Geertz, Armin W., and Guðmundur Ingi Markússon. 2010. ‘Religion Is Natural, Atheism Is Not: On Why Everybody Is Both Right and Wrong’. Religion 40: 152–165.
  • Geroulanos, S. 2010. An Atheism That Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Guillory, J.M. 2010. ‘Reconciling Non-belief: A Mixed Methods Approach to Sources of Agnosticism and Atheism’. Unpublished MA Thesis, Austin: University of Texas at Austin.
  • Habermas, Jurgen. 2010. An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular  Age. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Halman, Loek. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in the Netherlands’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 155–175. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Harries, Richard. 2010. ‘Foreword’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam, xi–xii. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Hormel, Leontina M. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in the Former Soviet Union’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 45–71. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Hunter, Laura A. 2010. ‘Explaining Atheism: Testing the Secondary Compensator Model and Proposing an Alternative’. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 6.
  • Hyman, Gavin. 2010. A Short History of Atheism. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Kanazawa, Satoshi. 2010. ‘Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent’. Social Psychology Quarterly 73 (1): 33–57.
  • Kane, Michael N. 2010. ‘Research Note: Perceptions About the Ridicule of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 25 (3): 453–462.
  • Keene, D.L., and R.R. Handrich. ‘Panic over the Unknown: America Hates Atheists’. The Jury Expert 22, no. 2 (2010): 50–60.
  • Knott, Kim. 2010a. ‘Theoretical and Methodological Resources for Breaking Open the Secular and Exploring the Boundary Between Religion and Non-religion’. Historia Religionum 2: 115–133.
  • ———. 2010b. ‘Specialness and the Sacred: Ann Taves, Religious Experience Reconsidered’. Religion 40 (4): 305–307.
  • Lee, Lois, and Stephen Bullivant. 2010. ‘Where Do Atheists Come From?’ New Scientist, March 3. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527506.100-where-do-atheists-come-from.html?page=1.
  • Liang, Tong. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in China’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 197–221. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Lim, Chaeyoon, Carol Ann, and Robert D. Putnam. 2010. ‘Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity Among Religious Nones’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49 (4): 596–618.
  • Linneman, Thomas J., and Margaret A. Clendenen. 2010. ‘Sexuality and the Secular’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 89–111. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Lüchau, Peter. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity: The Scandanavian Paradox’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 177–196. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Mahmood, Saba. 2010. ‘Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?’ Critical Inquiry 35: 836–862.
  • Manning, Christel. 2010. ‘Atheism, Secularity, the Family, and Children’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 19–41. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • McLennan, Gregor. 2010. ‘The Postsecular Turn’. Theory Culture Society 27 (3): 3–20.
  • Modood, Tariq. 2010. ‘Moderate Secularism, Religion as Identity and Respect for Religion’. The Political Quarterly 81 (1): 4–14.
  • Modood, Tariq, Pragna Patel, Julia Bard, Tope Omoniyi, Joshua A. Fishman, and Stacey Gutkowski. 2010. ‘From Multiculturalism to Multifaithism? The Panel Debate’. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 10 (2): 304–322.
  • Morini, C. 2010. ‘Secularism and Freedom of Religion : The Approach of the European Court of Human Rights’. Israel Law Review 43 (3): 611–630.
  • Nall, Jeff. 2010. ‘Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary  Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Narisetti, Innaiah. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in India’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 139–153. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Pasquale, Frank L. 2010a. ‘A Portrait of Secular Group Affiliates’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 43–87. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • ———. 2010b. ‘An Assessment of the Role of Early Parental Loss in the Adoption of Atheism or Irreligion’. Archive for the Psychology of Religion 32 (3): 375–396.
  • Paul, Gregory S. 2010. ‘The Evolution of Popular Religiosity and Secularism: How First World Statistics Reveal Why Religion Exists, Why It Has Been Popular, and Why the Most Successful Democracies Are the Most Secular’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 149–207. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Robbins, Jeffrey W., and Christopher D. Rodkey. 2010. ‘Beating “God” to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Roemer, Michael K. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in Modern Japan’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 23–44. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Schwadel, P. 2010. ‘Period and Cohort Effects on Religious Nonaffiliation and Religious Disaffiliation: A Research Note’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49 (2): 311–319.
  • Siegers, Pascale. 2010. ‘A Multiple Group Latent Class Analysis of Religious Orientations in Europe’. In Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications, ed. E. Davidov, P. Schmidt, and J. Billet, 397–413. New York: Routledge.
  • Stahl, William A. 2010. ‘One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, 98–108. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Turner, Bryan S. 2010. ‘Religion in a Post-Secular Society’. In The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, 649–667. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Vernon, Mark. 2010. ‘Afterword’. In Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. Amarnath Amarasingam, 225–231. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  • Voas, David. 2010. ‘Explaining Change over Time in Religious Involvement’. In Religion and Youth, ed. Sylvia Collins-Mayo and Pink Dandelion, 25–32. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Warner, Michael, Jonathan Vanantwerpen, and Craig Calhoun, eds. 2010. Varieties of  Secularism in a Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Warner, Rob. 2010. Secularization and Its Discontents. London: Continuum.
  • Welter, A. 2010. ‘Secularizing the Sacred, Sacralizing the Secular. Reflections on the Buddhist Monastic Institution in China’. Saeculum 60 (2): 307–330.
  • Whitley, Rob. 2010. ‘Atheism and Mental Health’. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 18 (3): 190–194.
  • Wilde, Lawrence. 2010. ‘The Antinomies of Aggressive Atheism’. Contemporary Political Theory 9: 266–283.
  • Wilford, Justin. 2010. ‘Sacred Archipelagos: Geographies of Secularization’. Progress in Human Geography 34 (3): 328–348.
  • Wilkinson, P.J., and P.G. Coleman. 2010. ‘Strong Beliefs and Coping in Old Age: a Case-based Comparison of Atheism and Religious Faith’. Ageing and Society 30: 37–61.
  • Yirenkyi, Kwasi, and Baffour K. Takyi. 2010. ‘Atheism and Secularity in Ghana’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 2: Global Expressions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, 73–89. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • Zenk, Thomas. 2010. ‘Die Erfindung Des “Neuen Atheismus”: Religionswissenschaftliche Anmerkungen Zu Einem Phänomen Der Religiösen Gegenwartskultur’. Aufklärung Und Kritik 35: 123–135.
  • Zuckerman, Phil. 2010a. ‘Introduction’. In Atheism and Secularity – Volume 1: Issues, Concepts and Definitions, ed. Phil Zuckerman, vii–xii. Santa Barbara: Praeger.
  • ———. 2010b. Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment. New York: New York University Press.
  • Zuckerman, Phil, ed. 2010c. Atheism and Secularity. 2 vols. Santa Barbara: Praeger.

2009

  • Arthur, J. 2009. ‘Secularisation, Secularism and Catholic Education : Understanding the Challenges’. International Studies in Catholic Education 1 (2): 228–239.
  • Baggini, Julian. 2009. ‘The New Atheist Movement Is Destructive’. http://www.fritanke.no/ENGLISH/2009/The_new_atheist_movement_is_destructive/.
  • Bainbridge, William Sims. 2009. ‘Atheism’. In The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, ed. Peter Carke. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Baker, Joseph O’Brian, and Buster Smith. 2009a. ‘The Nones: Social Characteristics of the Religiously Unaffiliated’. Social Forces 87 (3): 1251–1263.
  • ———. 2009b. ‘None Too Simple: Examining Issues of Religious Nonbelief and Nonbelonging in the United States’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48 (4) (December): 719–733.
  • Bangstad, Sindre. 2009. ‘Contesting Secularism/s: Secularism and Islam in the Work of Talal Asad’. Anthropological Theory 9 (2): 188–208.
  • Berner, Ulrich. 2009. ‘Skeptizismus Und Religionskritik’. In Religion Und Kritik in Der Antike,ed. U. Berner and I Tanaseanu-Döbler, trans. Johannes Quack, 36–59. Berlin: Lit Verlag.
  • Bhandar, Brenna. 2009. ‘The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered’. Journal of Law and Society 36 (2).
  • Bubbio, Paolo Diego. 2009. ‘Metaphilosophical Reflections on Theism and Atheism in the Current Debate’. In Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Reflections, ed. Philip Andrew Quadrio and Carrol Besseling, 354–381. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Caldwell, C.L. 2009. ‘The Puzzle of Nonbelief’. In How Differently We Work! Case Studies at the Overlap of Religion and Psychology, ed. Nathaniel F. Barrett and Robert Cummings Neville.
  • Casanova, José. 2009. ‘The Secular and Secularisms’. Social Research 76 (4): 1049–1066.
  • Cavanaugh, William T. 2009. The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Cliteur, Paul. 2009. ‘The Definition of Atheism’. Journal of Religion and Society 11.
  • Day, Abby. 2009a. ‘Researching Belief Without Asking Religious Questions’. Fieldwork in Religion 4 (1): 86–104.
  • ———. 2009b. ‘Believing in Belonging: An Ethnography of Young People’s Constructions of Belief’. Culture and Religion 10 (3) (November): 263–278.
  • Ecklund, E.H., and J.Z. Park. 2009. ‘Conflict Between Science and Religion Among Academic Scientists?’ Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48 (2): 276–292.
  • Epstein, Greg M. 2009. Good Without God: What a Billion Non-Religious People Do Believe. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Fergusson, David. 2009. Faith and Its Critics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Foust, C.H. 2009. ‘“An Alien in a Christian World”: Intolerance, Coping, and Negotiating  Identity Among Atheists in the United States.’ Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Wake Forest University: Wake Forest University.
  • Galen, L.W. ‘Profiles of the Godless: Results from a Survey of the Nonreligious.’ Free Inquiry, September 2009.
  • Gökariksel, Banu. 2009. ‘Beyond the Officially Sacred: Religion, Secularism, and the Body in the  Production of Subjectivity’. Social and Cultural Geography 10 (6): 657–674.
  • Goodman, Kathleen M., and John A. Mueller. 2009. ‘Invisible, Marginalized, and Stigmatized:  Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Atheist Students’. New Directions for Student Services 125: 55–63.
  • Howe, Nicolas. 2009. ‘Secular Iconoclasm: Purifying, Privatizing, and Profaning Public Faith’. Social and Cultural Geography 10 (6): 639–656.
  • Keysar, Ariela. 2009. Secularism, Women & the State: The Mediterranean World in the 21st Century. ISSSC.
  • Lee, Lois. 2009a. ‘NSRN Website – About’. Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network. http://www.nsrn.co.uk/About.html.
  • ———. 2009b. ‘Myth by Modern Media: Stabilising Uncertainty in Pluralised Societies (PPSIS Working Paper)’. Cambridge: University of Cambridge. www.ppsis.cam.ac.uk.
  • Lynn, Richard, John Harvey, and Helmuth Nyborg. 2009. ‘Average Intelligence Predicts Atheism Rates Across 137 Nations’. Intelligence 37 (1): 11–15.
  • Modood, Tariq. 2009. ‘Moderate Secularism and Multiculturalism’. Politics 29 (1): 71–76.
  • Patrikios, Stratos. 2009. ‘Religious Deprivatisation in Modern Greece’. Journal of Contemporary Religion 24 (3): 357–362.
  • Paul, Gregory S. 2009. ‘The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity Upon Dysfunctional Psychosocial Conditions’. Evolutionary Psychology 7 (3): 398–441.
  • Pollack, Detlef. 2009. Rückkehr Des Religiösen? Tübigen: Mohr Siebeck (Studien zum religiösen Wandel in Deutschland und Europa).
  • Rees, T.J. 2009. ‘Is Personal Insecurity a Cause of Cross-National Differences in the Intensity of Religious Belief?’ Journal of Religion and Society 11.
  • 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).
  • Rodrigues, D.S. 2009a. ‘Os Sem Religião e a Crise Do Pertencimento Institucional No Brasil: o Caso Fluminense [Title in English: “The ‘Without Religion’ and the Crisis of the Institutional Affiliation in Brazil:  The Case of Some Inhabitants of Rio De Janeiro State”]’. Revista Espaço Acadêmico (UEM) 102: 180–181.
  • ———. 2009b. ‘Os Sem Religião No Censo Nacional: Investigações e Ponderações Acerca  De Pertencimento Religioso No Brasil [Title in English: The “Without Religion” in the National Census: Investigations and Reflections Concerning Religious Affiliation in Brazil]’. Revista Eletrônica Espaço  Acadêmico 94: 1–10.
  • Slezak, Peter. 2009. ‘Gods of the State: Atheism, Enlightenment and Barbarity’. In Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Reflections, ed. Philip Andrew Quadrio and Carrol Besseling, 20–60. Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Stenger, Victor. 2009. The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. New York: Prometheus.
  • Storm, Ingrid. 2009. ‘Halfway to Heaven: Four Types of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe’. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48 (4): 702–718.
  • Voas, David. 2009a. ‘The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe’. European Sociological Review 25 (2): 155–168.
  • ———. 2009b. ‘Who Are the Non-religious in Britain and Where Do They Come from? (Conference Paper)’. In Wolfson College, Oxford: Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.
  • Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika, Uta Karstein, and Thomas Schmidt-Lux. 2009. Forcierte Säkularität. Religiöser Wandel Und Generationendynamik Im Osten Deutschlands. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
  • Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika, and Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2009. ‘The Stable Third: Non-religiosity in Germany’. In What the World Believes. Analyses and Commentary on the Religion Monitor 2008, 149–166. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.
  • Zuckerman, Phil. 2009a. ‘Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being: How the Findings of Social Science Counter Negative Stereotypes and Assumptions’. Social Compass 3 (6): 949–971.
  • ———. 2009b. ‘Why Are Danes and Swedes so Irreligious?’ Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 22 (1).

2008

  • Azinfar, Fatemeh Chehregosha. 2008. Atheism in the medieval Islamic and European world: the influence of Persian and Arabic ideas of doubt and skepticism on medieval European literary thought. Ibex Publishers, Inc.

  • Bader, Veit. 2008. Secularism, Public Reason or Moderately Agonistic Democracy? In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Beckford, James A. 2008. “Secularism and Coercive Freedoms.” British Journal of Sociology 59 (2): 255-260.

  • Berger, Peter, Grace Davie, and Effie Fokas. 2008. Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Bhargava, Rajeev. 2008. Political secularism: why it is needed and what can be learnt from its Indian version. In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bullivant, Stephen. 2008a. “Research Note: Sociology and the Study of Atheism.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 23 (3): 363-368.
  • ———. 2008b. “Introducing Irreligious Experiences.” Implicit Religion 11 (1): 7-24.
  • Caldwell-Harris, C.L., A. Wilson, E. Tempio, and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. 2008. Exploring the atheist personality: Well-being, awe, and magical thinking in atheists, Buddhists, and Christians. http://people.bu.edu/harris/AthChrisBuddApril9_2008.pdf.
  • Farias, M., and M. Lalljee. 2008. “Holistic individualism in the Age of Aquarius: Measuring individualism/collectivism in New Age, Catholic and atheist/agnostic groups.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47 (2): 277-289.
  • Franzmann, Manuel. 2008. Why People Would Not Stop Contributing If an Unconditional Basic Income Were Introduced. An Argumentation from Within the Sociology of Religion. Frankfurt am Main: Goethe Universität (Hochschulpublikation der Goethe Universität). http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2008/5628/.
  • Gorski, Philip S., and Ateş Altinordu. 2008. “After Secularization?” Annual Review of Sociology 34 (1): 55-85.
  • Habermas, Jurgen. 2008. Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Hitchens, Christopher. 2008. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. London: Atlantic Books.
  • Hunter, Ian. 2008. The shallow legitimacy of secular liberal orders: the case of early modern Brandenburg-Prussia. In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman. 2008. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Hwang, Karen. 2008a. “Atheists with Disabilities: A Neglected Minority in Religion and Rehabilitation Research.” Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 12 (2): 7-24.
  • ———. 2008b. “Experiences of atheists with spinal cord injury: Results of an internet-based exploratory survey.” SCI Psychosocial Process 20: 4-17.
  • Lægaard, Sune. 2008a. “Moderate Secularism, Difference Sensitivity and Contextualism: A Rejoinder to Modood.” Politics 29 (1): 77-81.
  • ———. 2008b. “Moderate Secularism and Multicultural Equality.” Politics 28 (3): 160-168.
  • Levey, G.B. 2008. Secularism and Religion in a Multicultural Age. In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Levey, G.B., and Tariq Modood, eds. 2008. Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Modood, Tariq. 2008. Muslims, religious equality and secularism. In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Nall, Jeff. 2008. ‘Fundamentalist Atheism and Its Intellectual Failures’. Humanity and Society 32 (August): 263–280.
  • Saunders, David. 2008. France on the knife-edge of religion: commemorating the centenary of the law of 9 December 1905 on the separation of church and state. In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Sayyid, S. 2008. Contemporary politics of secularism. In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Shariff, Azim F.A., Adam B. Cohen, and Ara Anorenzayan. 2008. “The Devil’s Advocate: Secular Arguments Diminish both Implicit and Explicit Religious Belief.” Journal of Cognition and Culture 8 (3-4): 417-423.
  • Sherkat, Darren E. 2008. “Beyond Belief: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theistic Certainty in the United States.” Sociological Spectrum 28 (5): 438-459.
  • Stewart, Robert B. 2008. Introduction: The Future of Atheism: An Introductory Appraisal. In The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue, ed. Robert B. Stewart, 1-16. London: SPCK.
  • Taylor, Charles. 2008. Foreword: What is secularism? In Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, ed. G.B. Levey and Tariq Modood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Urban, Greg. 2008. “The circulation of secularism.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 21 (1-4): 17-37.
  • Vernon, Mark. 2008. After Atheism: Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Life. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Weller, Paul. 2008. Religious Diversity in the UK: Contours and Issues. London: Continuum.

2007

  • Ammerman, N., ed. 2007. Everyday Religion: Observing MOdern Religious Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Bainbridge, William Sims. 2007. Across the Secular Abyss: From Faith to Wisdom. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

  • Beattie, Tina. 2007. The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion. London: Darton, Longman and Todd.
  • Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. 2007a. Atheists: A Psychological Profile. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. Michael Martin, 300-317. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ———. 2007b. The Secular Israeli (Jewish) Identity: An Impossible Dream? In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Bremmer, J.N. 2007. Atheism in antiquity. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. Michael Martin, 11-26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Campbell, Colin. 2007. The Easternization of the West. Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers.
  • Caron, Nathalie. 2007. Laïcité and Secular Attitudes in France’. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Cimino, Richard, and Christopher Smith. 2007. “Secular Humanism and Atheism beyond Progressive Secularism.” Sociology of Religion 68 (4): 407-424.
  • Dawkins, Richard. 2007. The God Delusion. London: Black Swan.
  • Dencik, Lars. 2007. The Paradox of Secularism in Denmark: From Emancipation to Ethnocentrism. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Dennett, Daniel C. 2007. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. London: Penguin.
  • Engineer, Ashgar Ali. 2007. Secularism in India. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Fitzgerald, Timothy. 2007. Discourse on Civility and Barbarity: A Critical History of Religion and Related Categories. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Harper, Marcel. 2007. “The Stereotyping of Nonreligious People by Religious Students: Contents and Subtypes.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46 (4): 539-552.
  • Harris, Sam. 2007. Letter to a Christian Nation: A Challenge to Faith. London: Bantam Press.
  • Harrison, Victoria S. 2007. “On Defining the Religious Person.” Theology July/August 2007: 243-250.
  • Hitchens, Christopher, ed. 2007. The Portable Atheist. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press.
  • Hyman, Gavin. 2007. Atheism in Modern History. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. Michael Martin, 27-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Iannaccone, L.R., and M.D. Makowsky. 2007. “Accidental Atheists? Agent-Based Explanations for the Persistence of Religious Regionalism.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46 (1): 1-16.
  • Keysar, A. 2007. Who Are America’s Atheists and Agnostics? In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Keysar, A., and B. Kosmin. 2007. The Freethinkers in a Free Market of Religion. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Killen, Patricia O’Connell. 2007. The North American Pacific Rim: A Response to Frank Pasquale and William Stahl. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Knott, Kim, and Myfanwy Franks. 2007. ‘Secular Values and the Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis of an English Medical Centre’. Health and Place 13 (1): 224–237.
  • Konner, Joan. 2007. The atheist’s Bible: an illustrious collection of irreverent thoughts. 1st ed. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins.
  • Kosmin, B. 2007. Introduction: Contemporary Secularity and Secularism. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Kosmin, Barry A., and Ariela Keysar, eds. 2007. Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Martin, Michael. 2007a. General Introduction. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. Michael Martin, 1-7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Martin, Michael, ed. 2007b. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McCutcheon, Russell T. 2007. “‘They Licked the Platter Clean’: On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and the Secular.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 19: 173-199. doi:10.1163/157006807X240109.
  • McGrath, Alister, and Joanna Collicutt McGrath. 2007. The Dawkins Delusion: Atheist Fundamentalism and the denial of the divine. London: SPCK.
  • McLennan, Gregor. 2007. ‘Towards Postsecular Sociology?’ Sociology 41: 857–870.
  • McLeod, Hugh. 2007. The Religious Crisis of the 1960s. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Moossavi, Nastaran. 2007. Secularism in Iran: A Hidden Agenda? In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Pasquale, Frank L. 2007a. Unbelief and Irreligion, Empirical Study and Neglect of. In The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, ed. Tom Flynn, 760-766. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.
  • ———. 2007b. “Nonreligious” in the American Northwest. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Pasquale, Frank L. 2007c. ‘Empirical Study and Neglect of Unbelief and Irreligion’. The New Encyclopaedia of Unbelief. Amherst, NY: Prometheus. http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/centers/isssc/Documents/Unbelief%20and%20Irreligion,%20Empirical%20Study%20and%20Neglect%20of.pdf.
  • Phillips, Bruce A. 2007. Putting Secularity in context. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Platinga, Alvin. 2007. “The Dawkins Confusion: Naturalism ‘ad absurdum’.” Books & Culture. http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2007/marapr/1.21.html.
  • Presser, S., and M. Chaves. 2007. “Is Religious Service Attendance Declining?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 46 (3): 417-423.
  • Reed, S.R. 2007. “Analyzing secularization and religiosity in Asia.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 8 (3): 327-339.
  • Rodrigues, D.S. 2007. “Religiosos Sem Igreja: Um Mergulho na Categoria Censitária dos Sem Religião [Religious persons Without Church: A Dive in the Census category of the Without Religion].” REVER (PUCSP) 4: 31-56.
  • Roy, Oliver. 2007. Secularism Confronts Islam. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Saler, Benson, and Charles A. Ziegler. 2007. “Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency.” Temenos 42 (2): 7-41.
  • Singleton, Andrew. 2007. “People Were Not Made to Be in God’s Image”: A Contemporary Overview of Secular Australians. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Smith, Graeme. 2007. A Short History of Secularism. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Stahl, William A. 2007. Is Anyone in Canada Secular? In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Taylor, Charles. 2007. A Secular Age. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Voas, David, and Abby Day. 2007. Secularity in Great Britain. In Secularism and Secularity: Contemporary International Perspectives, ed. Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar. Hartford, CI: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture.
  • Zuckerman, Phil. 2007. Atheism: Contemporary Numbers and Patterns. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, ed. Michael Martin, 47-65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2006

  • Asad, Talal. 2006a. “French Secularism and the ‘Islamic Veil Affair’.” The Hedgehog Review 8: 93-106.
  • ———. 2006b. Trying to Understand French Secularism. In Poitical Theologies: Public Religions in a Post Secular World, ed. Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Blanes, Ruy Llera. 2006. “The atheist anthropologist: Believers and non-beleivers in anthropological fieldwork.” Social Anthropology 14 (2): 223-234.
  • Bock, Heike. 2006. ‘Secularization of the Modern Conduct of Life? Reflections on Religiousness in Early Modern Europe’. In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck, 143–154. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Brooke, C. 2006. “How the Stoics became Atheists.” Historical Journal 49 (2): 387-402.
  • Bruce, Steve. 2006. ‘What the Secularization Paradigm Really Says’. In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck, 39–48. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Casanova, José. 2006a. Religion, Secular Identities and European Integration. In Religion in an Expanding Europe, ed. Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ———. 2006b. “Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective.” The Hedgehog Review.
  • Chambers, Paul. 2006. ‘Secularization and Welsh Religiosity’. In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Cinar, A. 2006. Modernity, Islam, and secularism in Turkey: Bodies, places, and time. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Cipriani, Roberto. 2006. ‘Secularization or “diffused Religion”?’ In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck, 123–142. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Crockett, Alasdair, and David Voas. 2006. “Generations of Decline: Religious Change in 20th-Century Britain.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45 (4): 567-584.
  • Das, Veena. 2006. Secularism and the Arguent from Nature. In Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocuters, ed. David Scott and Charles Hirschkind. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Davie, Grace. 2006. “Is Europe an Exceptional Case?” The Hedgehog Review: 23-34.
  • Day, Abby. 2006. Believing in Belonging: a Case Study from Yorkshire. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Lancaster: Lancaster University.
  • Delibas, Kayhan. 2006. ‘The Experience of Secularisation in Modern Turkey: Secularisation from Above’. In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck, 375–394. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Edgell, Penny, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann. 2006. “Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society.” American Sociological Review 71 (2) (April): 211-234.
  • Franzmann, Manuel, Christel Gärtner, Nicole Köck, and Todd Wier, eds. 2006. ‘The Secularization of Religious Dissent: Anticlerical  Politics and the Freigeistig Movement in Germany 1844-1933rten’. In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, 155–176. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Franzmann, Manuel, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck, eds. 2006. Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Habermas, Jurgen. 2006. ‘Religion in the Public Sphere’. European Journal of Philosophy 14 (1): 1–25.
  • Halman, Loek, and V. Draulans. 2006. “How Secular is Europe?” British Journal of Sociology 57 (2): 263-288.
  • Harris, Sam. 2006. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason. London: The Free Press.
  • Hunsberger, Bruce, and Bob Altemeyer. 2006. Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers. New York: Prometheus.
  • Jager, Colin. 2006. “After the Secular: The Subject of Romanticism.” Public Culture 18: 301-321.
  • Katzenstein, Peter J. 2006. Multiple modernities as limits to secular Europeanization? In Religion in an Expanding Europe, ed. Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kosmin, Barry A., and Ariela Keysar. 2006. Religion in a Free Market, Religious and Non-Religious Americans: Who, What, Why, Where. Ithaca, NY: Paramount Market Publishing.
  • Krause, N. 2006. ‘Religious Doubt and Psychological Well-being: A Longitudinal Investigation’. Review of Religious Research 47: 2887–302.
  • Lee, Lois. 2006. The “Secular” Individual in Britain: Toward a Sociology of (Ir)religion (unpublished MPhil dissertation). MPhil Dissertation, University of Cambridge.
  • Llera Blanes, Ruy. 2006. “The Atheist Anthropologist: Believers and Non-Believers in Anthropological Fieldwork.” Social Anthropology 14 (2): 223-234.
  • Mahmood, Saba. 2006. “Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation.” Public Culture 18: 323-347.
  • Martin, David. 2006. ‘Comparative Secularization North and South’. In Religiosität in Der Säkularisierten Welt. Theoretische Und Empirische Beiträge Zur Säkularisierungsdebatte in Der Religionssoziologie, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Gärtner, and Nicole Köck. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie  der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Band 11).
  • Oevermann, Ulrich, and Manuel Franzmann. 2006. Strukturelle Religiosität auf dem Wege zur religiösen Indifferenz. In Religiosität in  der säkularisierten Welt, ed. Manuel Franzmann, Christel Manning, and Nicole Köck, 49-81. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Scott, David, and Charles Hirschkind, eds. 2006. Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Voas, David. 2006. “ ’Religious Decline in Scotland: New Evidence on Timing and Spatial Patterns.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45 (1): 107-118.

2005

  • Arnold, J.H. 2005. Belief and unbelief in medieval Europe. London: Hodder Arnold.
  • Bainbridge, William Sims. 2005. “Atheism.” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 1: 1-24.
  • Buckley, S.J., and Michael J. Buckley. 2005. The study of religion and the rise of atheism: conflict or confirmation? In Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century, ed. David F. Ford, Ben Quash, and Janet Martin Soskice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Cady, Linell. 2005. “Secularism, Secularizing, and Secularization: Reflections on Stout’s Democracy and Tradition.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 27 (3): 871-885.
  • Cavalcanti, H.B., and D. Schleef. 2005. “The Case for Secular Assimilation? The Latino Experience in Richmond, Virginia.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44 (4): 473-483.
  • During, Simon. 2005. “Towards the postsecular.” PMLA 120: 106-107.
  • Exline, J.J., and A. Martin. 2005. Anger toward God: A new frontier in forgiveness research. In Handbook of Forgiveness, ed. E.L. Worthington, 73-88. New York: Routledge.
  • Franzmann, Manuel. 2005. ‘Generation and Secularisation in Germany. The Succession of Generations up to the Youngest Adult Generation and the Advancing Process of Secularisation’. In Moderné Náboženstvo – Modern Religion, 44–54. Bratislava: Ústav pre vzťahy štátu a církví. http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2007/5129/.
  • Froese, Paul, and Stephen Pfaff. 2005. “Explaining a Religious Anomaly: A Historical Analysis of Secularization in Eastern Germany.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44 (4): 397-422.
  • Heelas, Paul, Linda Woodhead, Benjamin Seel, Bronislaw Szerszynski, and Karen Tusting. 2005. The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Knott, Kim. 2005. The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis. London: Equinox.
  • McGrath, Alister. 2005. The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World. London: Rider.
  • Orsi, R. 2005. Between heaven and earth: the religious worlds people make and the scholars who study them. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Riley, J., S. Best, and B.G. Charlton. 2005. “Religious believers and strong atheists may both be less depressed than existentially-uncertain people.” QJM: AN International Journal of Medicine 98 (11): 840.
  • Seaman, Ann Rowe. 2005. America’s Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O’Hair. New York: Continuum.
  • Stark, Rodney, Eva Hamberg, and Allen S. Miller. 2005. “Exploring Spirituality and Unchurched Religions in America, Sweden, and Japan.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 20 (1): 3-23.
  • Voas, David, and Alasdair Crockett. 2005. “Religion in Britain: Neither Believing nor Belonging.” Sociology 39 (1): 11-28.

2004

  • Barrett, J.L. 2004. Why would anyone believe in God? Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
  • Bates, S. 2004. ‘“Godless Communism” and Its Legacies’. Society 41 (3).
  • Buckley, Michael J. 2004. Denying and Disclosing God: The Ambiguous Progress of Modern Atheism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Froese, Paul. 2004a. “After Atheism: An Analysis of Religious Monopolies in the Post-Communist World.” Sociology of Religion 65 (1): 57-75.
  • ———. 2004b. “Forced Secularisation in Soviet Russia: Why an Atheistic Monopoly Failed.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (1): 35-50.
  • Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman. 2004a. “The International Politics of Secularism: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29: 115-138.
  • ———. 2004b. “The Political Authority of Secularism in International Relations.” European Journal of International Relations 10: 235-262.
  • Jacoby, Susan. 2004. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. New York: Metropolitan Books.
  • Mufti, Aamir R. 2004. “Critical Secularism: A Reintroduction for Perilous Times.” Boundary 2 31.
  • Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. 2004. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Poupard, Paul. 2004. Where Is Your God? Responding to the Challenge of Unbelief and Religious Indifference Today. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications.
  • Shibley, Mark A. 2004. Secular but Spiritual in the Pacific Northwest. In Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone, ed. Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk, 139-167. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
  • Zrinšak, Siniša. 2004. “Generations and Atheism: Patterns of Response to Communist Rule among Different Generations and Countries.” Social Compass 51 (2): 221-234.

2003

  • Asad, Talal. 2003. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Badmington, Neil. 2003. ‘Theorizing Posthumanism’. Cultural Critique 53: 10–27.
  • Baggini, Julian. 2003. Atheism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Bailey, Edward. 2003. ‘The Implicit Religiosity of the Secular: A Martian Perspective on the Definition of Religion’. In Defining Religion: Investigating the Boundaries Between the Sacred and Secular, ed. Arthur L. Griel and David G. Bromley, 55–66. Oxford: JAI.
  • Dawkins, Richard. 2003. “The future looks bright.” The Guardian, June 21. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins.
  • Dennett, Daniel C. 2003. “The Bright Stuff.” New York Times, July 12. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/opinion/the-bright-stuff.html.
  • Gärtner, Christel, Detlef Pollack, and Wohlrab-Sahr, eds. 2003. Atheismus und religiöse Indifferenz. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
  • Greeley, Andrew. 2003. Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millennium. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
  • Griel, Arthur L., and David G. Bromley, eds. 2003. Defining Religion: Investigating the Boundaries Between The Sacred And Secular. Oxford: JAI.
  • Hiorth, Finngeir. 2003. Atheism in the World. Oslo: Human-Etisk Forbund.
  • Kenworthy, Jared B. 2003. “Explaining the Belief in God for Self, In-Group, and Out-Group Targets.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42 (1): 137-146.
  • Muelemann, Heiner. 2003. ‘Erzwungene Säkularisierung in Der DDR – Wiederaufleben Des Glaubens in Ostdeutschland? Religiöser Glaube in Ost- Und Westdeutschen Alterskohorten Zwischen 1991 Und 1998’. In Atheismus Und Religiöse Indifferenz, ed. Christel Gärtner, Detlef Pollack, and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, 271–287. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.
  • Oevermann, Ulrich. 2003. ‘Strukturelle Religiosität Und Ihre Ausprägungen Unter Bedingungen Der Vollständigen Säkularisierung Des Bewußtseins’. In Atheismus Und Religiöse Indifferenz, ed. Christel Gärtner, Detlef Pollack, and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, 340–388. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.Pollack, Detlef. 2003. Säkularisierung – Ein Moderner Mythos? Studien Zum Religiösen Wandel in Deutschland. Tübigen: Mohr Siebeck.
  • Sheehan, Jonathan. 2003. “Enlightenment, Religion, and the Enigma of Secularization.” American Historical Review 108: 1061-1080.
  • Yavuz, M., and John L. Esposito, eds. 2003. Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement. Syracruse, NY: Syracruse University Press.

2002

  • Bruce, Steve. 2002. God is Dead: Secularisation in the West. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Davie, Grace. 2002. Europe: The Exceptional Case. London: Darton, Longman and Todd.
  • During, Simon. 2002. Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Fahey, Tony. 2002. Is Atheism Increasing? Ireland and Europe Compared. In Measuring Ireland: Discerning Values and Beliefs, ed. E.G. Cassidy, 46-66. Dublin: Veritas.
  • Glicksman, Allen. 2002. “A Mighty Fortress is Our Atheism: Defining the Nature of Religiousness in the Elderly.” Journal for Religious Gerontology 14 (1): 69-83.
  • Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer. 2002. “Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations.” American Sociological Review 67 (2) (April): 165-190.
  • Houtman, D., and P. Mascini. 2002. “Why do churches become empty, while New Age grows? Secularization and religious change in the Netherlands.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41 (3): 455-473.
  • Hunsberger, Bruce, M. Pratt, and S.M. Pancer. 2002. “A Longitudinal Study of Religious Doubts in High School and Beyond: Relationships, Stability, and Searching for Answers.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41 (2): 255-266.
  • Voas, David, Alasdair Crockett, and Daniel V. A. Olson. 2002. “Religious Pluralism and Participation: Why Previous Research Is Wrong.” American Sociological Review 67 (2) (April): 212-230.
  • Warner, Michael. 2002. Secularism. In Keywords for  American Cultural Studies, ed. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: New York University Press.

2001

  • Baier, Karl, Sigrid Mühlberger, Hans Schelkhorn, and Augustinus Karl Wucherer-Huldenfeld, eds. 2001. Atheismus heute? Ein Weltphänomen im Wandel. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlag.
  • Bailey, Edward. 2001. The Secular Faith Controversy: Religion in Three Dimensions. London: Continuum.
  • Bogensberger, Hugo. 2001. Atheismus heute? Ein religionssoziologisches Fragment. In Atheismus heute? Ein Weltphänomen im Wandel, ed. Karl Baier, Sigrid Mühlberger, Hans Schelkhorn, and Augustinus Karl Wucherer-Huldenfeld. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlag.
  • Farkas, S., J. Johnson, T. Foleno, A. Duffett, and P. Foley. 2001. For Goodness’ Sake:  Why so Many Want Religion to Play a Greater Role in American Society. New York: Public Agenda.
  • Froese, Paul. 2001. “Hungary for Religion: A Supply-Side Interpretation of the Hungarian Religious Revival.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (2): 251-268.
  • Fuller, Robert C. 2001. Spiritual, but not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Grotenhuis, M., and P. Scheepers. 2001. “Grotenhuis, M., & Scheepers, P. (2001). Churches in Dutch: Causes of religious disaffiliation in the Netherlands, 1937-1995. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 40(4), 591-606.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (4): 591-606.
  • Kühn, Ulrich. 2001. Zur säkularen Welt Ostdeutschlands. In Atheismus heute? Ein Weltphänomen im Wandel, ed. Karl Baier, Sigrid Mühlberger, Hans Schelkhorn, and Augustinus Karl Wucherer-Huldenfeld. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlag.
  • Wucherer-Huldenfeld, Augustinus Karl. 2001. Wandlungen des Phänomens und der Bedeutung des Atheismus an der Wende zum 21. Jahrhundert. In Atheismus heute? Ein Weltphänomen im Wandel, ed. Karl Baier, Sigrid Mühlberger, Hans Schelkhorn, and Augustinus Karl Wucherer-Huldenfeld. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlag.

2000

  • Brown, Callum G. 2000. The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000. Christianity and society in the modern world. London: Routledge.
  • Davie, Grace. 2000. Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Habgood, John. 2000. Varieties of Unbelief. London: Darton, Longman and Todd.
  • Hayes, Bernadette C. 2000. “Religious Independents Within Western Industrialised Nations: A Socio-Demographic Profile.” Sociology of Religion 61 (2): 191-207.
  • Hiorth, Finngeir. 2000a. Secularism in Norway. Oslo: Human-Etisk Forbund.
  • ———. 2000b. Secularism in the Netherlands, in Belgium, and in Luxemburg. Oslo: Human-Etisk Forbund.
  • Husband, William B. 2000. “Godless Communists”: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia 1917-1932. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Keane, John. 2000. “Secularism?” Political Quarterly 71 (1): 5-19.
  • Kirkley, Evelyn A. 2000. Rational Mothers and Infidel Gentlemen: Gender and American Atheism, 1865-1915. Syracruse, NY: Syracruse University Press.
  • Lewis, David C. 2000. After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia. New York: St Martin’s Press.
  • Tamimi, Azzam, and John L. Esposito. 2000. Islam and Secularism in the Middle East. New York: New York University Press.
  • Thrower, James. 2000. Western Atheism: A Short History. New York: Prometheus.

Pre-2000

  • Altemeyer, Bob, and Bruce Hunsberger. 1997. Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith and Others Abandon Religion. New York: Prometheus.
  • Asad, Talal. 1999. ‘Religion, Nation-State, Secularism’. In Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia, ed. P. Veer and H. Lehmann, 179–196. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Beckford, James A. 1999. ‘The Politics of Defining Religion in Secular Society: From a Taken for Granted Institution to a Contested Resource’. In The Pragmatics of Defining Religion: Contexts, Concepts and Contests, ed. Jan G. Platvoet and Arie L. Molendijk, 23–40. Leiden: Brill.
  • Berger, Peter, ed. 1999. The Desecularization of the World. Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center.
  • Berman, David. 1988. A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell. London: Croom Helm.
  • Bociurkiw, B. 1974. ‘Soviet Research on Religion and Atheism Since 1945’. Religion in Communist Lands 2 (1): 11–16.
  • Bruce, Steve. 1996. Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Budd, Susan. 1977. Varieties of Unbelief: Atheists and Agnostics in English Society 1850-1960. London: Heinemann.
  • Campbell, Colin. 1971. Toward a Sociology of Irreligion. London: Macmillan.
  • ———. 1977. ‘Analyzing the Rejection of Religion’. Social Compass 24.
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