God Damn is a poetic collection that delves into the complex relationship between a daughter and her father, who has recently suffered from a stroke. As her father grapples with Aphasia, a neurological disorder which has rendered him with a uniquely limited vocabulary, the autho…
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This dissertation analyzes the transformation of Soviet secular culture into a resource for post-Soviet religiosity, as an example of the relationship between secular and religious spheres. Based on archival research on Khrushchev- and Brezhnev-era atheist propaganda and ethnogr…
This thesis examines the development of materialism in the French Enlightenment from 1745 to 1789. As a relatively new intellectual category in the eighteenth century, materialism was systematized after the 1740s in France and endorsed a monistic ontology and cosmology of matter…
This thesis focuses on how organized Christians in America kept atheist ideas out of the public schools in the first half of the twentieth century. This was typically done by expanding the reading of the Bible, viewed as the source of all morality, along with prayers and other r…
Hobbes was Britain’s quintessential atheist at the dawn of the eighteenth century, and Hobbism (a widely recognized creed) was commonly used to identify and police theological and ecclesiological heterodoxy. A competing interpretation of Hobbism emerged over the first fifty year…
BackgroundMany kinds of beliefs can be held both strongly and emotionally, which means that they can prove difficult to change. Such beliefs can be either pathological (e.g. delusions) or non-pathological (e.g. religious, political and supernatural beliefs as well as belief in c…
Dehşet yönetim kuramı (DYK), insanların ölümlülüklerinin farkına varmalarının onlarda eşsiz bir dehşet duygusuna yol açtığını ve insan davranışlarını yönlendiren en temel motivasyonun ölüm korkusu olduğunu iddia eder. Kurama göre insanlar bu duyguyu yönetmek için çeşitli psikolo…
Fas'ta inanç ve dindarlık geniş çapta çalışılırken, ateizm ve deizm din sosyolojisi alanındaki araştırma konuları arasında yer almamaktadır. Hiç şüphe yok ki, dindar olmayan Faslılarla ilgili çalışmalar var, ancak bunlar çok sınırlı ve bu durum, Fas'ta ateizm konusunun hala araş…
The present study explored a highly influential exemplar of moral virtue and wisdom, Gretta Vosper, using a mixed-method person-centered case study analysis. Vosper is an Atheist Christian minister at West Hill United, a Christian church within the United Church of Canada.
People tend to feel more favorably toward others who share their beliefs and values. Religion can provide a quick estimate of ideological similarity. The religious values conflict model (Brandt & Van Tongeren, 2017) proposes that people high and low in religiosity are both preju…