Speaking in the room where Pope Benedict XVI gave his recent address, Dr Jonathan Lanman delivered the first NSRN Annual Lecture at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham. His lecture gave a introduction to his path-breaking cognitive anthropological approach to atheism.
A NSRN Events Report is available for this event…
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15 April 2010
Interest in non-religion and secularity studies continues to grow, and in March and April, NSRN received the following coverage:
Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivant, in the New Scientist, discussing the importance of non-religion research.
Stephen Bullivant and Lois Lee in The Age (Melbourne), on the richness of atheism as a topic for social research.
Interview with Lois Lee, founding director of the NSRN, in Der Standard
Globe and Mail (Toronto) article on the study of atheism.
5 November 2009
Following the enormous success of the first-generation NSRN website, we have been developing a more advanced website. The new site will also be more flexible, in terms of future development. In designing the new site, we have responded to your feedback; if you have any more comments or suggestions for improvement, please email them to us at info@nsrn.co.uk.
5 November 2009
Registration for the inaugeral meeting of the NSRN has now opened.
As well as keynote presentations from Professor Colin Campbell (York), Dr Ryan Cragun (Tampa) and Professor David Voas (Manchester), the conference will have interdisciplinary panels on (i) the beliefs of non-believers; (ii) problems and prospects of faith/non-faith dialogue; (iii) non-religion and community; (iv) categories of non-religion; and (v) non-religion and secularisation theory.
The NSRN and NSRN founder Lois Lee have been mentioned in a piece on the flourishing of social scientific research of non-believers. See the article, ‘Have faith in atheists’, at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/21/atheists-discriminate
26 April 2009
The NSRN has been included in Nathan Schneider’s discussion of current secularity research, published today in The Boston Globe. Read ‘Beyond belief: Research on religion goes after a new target: The secular’ online at www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/26/beyond_belief/
16 March 2009
With funding support from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, the NSRN launch its first website, at http://www.nsrn.co.uk.
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