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NSRN in the news 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/ |
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NSRN in the news 21 June 2009 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 |
NSRN website relaunch 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. |
NSRN conference - registration opens 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. Please see Events for more information. |
www.NSRN.co.uk launch 16 March 2009 With funding support from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, the NSRN launch its first website, at www.nsrn.co.uk. |
NSRN in the news 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. |