Near-death experiences (NDEs) are common amongst those coming close to death and profoundly impact how they make sense of the world. Dr. Alex Fry of the University of Bournemouth draws on interviews with atheists who…
Posts TaggedSBS x Explaining Atheism Smooth Brain Society is collaborating with the Explaining Atheism Project to bring you a series focusing on how religion has changed over time and why traditional religious practices are in decline
Smooth Brain Society is collaborating with the Explaining Atheism Project to bring you a series focusing on how religion has changed over time and why traditional religious practices are in decline
EA #3. Unholy Catholic Ireland – Dr. Hugh Turpin
https://youtu.be/RqUhHIJPFcg Dr. Hugh Turpin of Oxford University joins Feryl and Sahir on the podcast to share his work on the decline of Catholicism in Ireland and the factors which have led to it. We also…
EA #2. The Rise and Fall of Rituals – Dr. Martin Lang
https://youtu.be/A72VvZ3H0YM Dr. Martin Lang is assistant professor at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. And is the Director of the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA). He joins us to talk us through how rituals…
EA #1. Explaining Māori Deconversion from Christianity in Aotearoa (New Zealand) – Dr. Sara Rahmani
https://youtu.be/dd2ZI-fxIRs For the first episode of our Explaining Atheism series, Dr. Sara Rahmani from the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington joins us to talk about her project exploring Māori…
EA #0. Introduction to the Explaining Atheism Project
https://youtu.be/ct_dmuvuKjQ Smooth Brain Society is collaborating with the Explaining Atheism Project to bring you a brand new series focusing on non-religion. Over the course of the series we will have multiple guests from across the…