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The psychology and sociology of the causes and effects of religion and non-belief.

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Christian cancellation of the secular truce

Dec 21, 2009
People living in the UK will have noticed that Christians have been getting noisier in recent years. More clamour for more state-funded faith schools, more litigations, and more complaints against perceived anti-Christian bias. Evidence of a popular...

Religion continues to decline in the UK

Dec 18, 2009
Quick post tonight, with news from the British Social Attitudes Survey. The 26th report is due out in January, but they've slipped out a yuletide press release on religion. The press release points out that religious belief has dropped sharply, and...

Atheism increases trust

Dec 13, 2009
In modern, industrialised societies, we put an awful lot of trust in strangers. That's good, because if we couldn't trust strangers then most of our economic and social transactions would struggle. In fact, trust is a cornerstone of economic...

Live blogging the NSRN

Dec 11, 2009
Today I'm in Wolfson College, Oxford, for the first conference of the Non-religious and Secular Research Network. Now the plan is that I'm going to live blog this - i.e. I'll keep returning to this page to post updates through the day. hmm, let's see...

Off to the NSRN conference in Oxford

Dec 9, 2009
This Friday sees the launch conference of the Non-religion and Secularity Research Network. I'll be toddling off there tomorrow evening, and I'm going to try live-blogging the event via my Nokia N97. So stay tuned on Friday! Here's the keynote...




Tom R.
9.0
excellent
  Covers quite a wide range of topics related to humanism (atheism) and science. Subjects include psychology, morality, education, evolution etc. Style can be patchy, but it's mostly readable. On the whole, somewhat highbrow but would be of interest to anyone with an interest in science.
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