This page lists
post-graduate theses in
progress or recently
completed in the field of
non-religion and
secularity. Completed
theses are indicated by
the year of completion
information at the end of
the title. Some
researchers may be able
to email copies of their
thesis on request -
please email authors
direct.

If you would like to be
added to this list, please
send your information
(name, current thesis
title, discipline,
university, email address)
to info@nsrn.co.uk.

Compiled by Lois Lee.


Matthew Baker
Psychological type and atheism
Psychology of Religion, University of Warwick
Matthew.Baker@warwick.ac.uk

Stephen Bullivant*
The salvation of atheists: The modern Catholic engagement with unbelief (2009)
Theology, Oxford University
stephen.bullivant@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Jason Cantone
Religion at work: Self-referencing in hostile work environment actions
Psychology, University of Nebraska
cantone@gmail.com

Charles Devellennes
Self-avowed atheists in eighteenth-century France: Meslier, Holbach and the birth of atheist
political thought
University of Kent

Stacey Gutkowski
Religion in the British security imaginary, 1969 - 2008
International Studies, University of Cambridge
seg46@cam.ac.uk

Bethany Heywood
Title on request
Psychology, Queen's University Belfast (Institute of Cognition and Culture)
bheywood01@qub.ac.uk

Nicolas Howe
The uncivil eye: Law, landscape and American secularity (2009)
Geography, University of California (Los Angeles)
nhowe@ucla.edu

Birgitte Johansen
The construction of religion in academic practice at Danish universities
Minority studies and Sociology, University of Copenhagen
bjohansen@hum.ku.dk

Jonathan Lanman*
A secular mind: A cognitive anthropology of non-theism
Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford
jonathan.lanman@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Lois Lee
How religious are the non-religious? Unbelieving and belonging in Modern Britain
Sociology, University of Cambridge
ll317@cam.ac.uk

Michael Magee
Interpersonal foundations of religious belief: How religious beliefs are defended as a
function of parental attachment security
Psychology, CUNY (Brooklyn College)
mmagee@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Damián Omar Martínez
El multiculturalismo y las nuevas formas de experiencia (Multiculturalism and New Forms of
Experience)
Philosophy, University of Murcia

Bjoern Mastiaux
Members of Aheist / Freethought / Secularist Organizations in Germany and the
United States - An Exploratory Study
Sociology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf
mastiaux@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de

Jesper Aagaard Petersen
Between Darwin and the Devil: Strategies of Continuity, Clash and Consumption in modern
Satanism
History of Religions, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)
jesper.petersen@ntnu.no

Johannes Quack*
An Ethnography of the Rationalist Organisation Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan
Samiti (Organisation for the Eradication of Superstition) and their Mode of Unbelief
Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
JohannesQuack@web.de

Lydia Reid
An exploration of the compatibility between Christian and Humanist morality
Sociology, University of Manchester
lydia.reid@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Susannah Rigg
The big three-oh: a qualitative study of religious, secular and post-secular sources of identity
and meaning making used by young people in Britain to negotiate turning thirty
Sociology, University of London (Birkbeck College)
srigg01@students.bbk.ac.uk

Radoslaw Tyrala
Polish nonbelievers and their minority status
Sociology, AGH University of Science and Technology (Cracow, Poland)
rtyrala@agh.edu.pl



* Thesis recently completed (in or after 2009)
Last modified 22 July 2010
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