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Linford, Daniel J. "Atheism and Analogy: Aquinas Against the Atheists." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/48434.

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In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas developed two models for how humans may speak of God - either by the analogy of proportion or by the analogy of proportionality. Aquinas's doctrines initiated a theological debate concerning analogy that spanned several centuries. In the 18th century, there appeared two closely related arguments for atheism which both utilized analogy for their own purposes. In this thesis, I show that one argument, articulated by the French materialist Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, is successful in showing that God-talk, as conceived of using the analogy of proportion,
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Hunt, Tony L. "Atheism the great suppression /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p074-0069.

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Smith, Jonathan Daniel. "Atheism and moral scepticism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14967/.

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Many philosophers have argued, and continue to argue, that if atheism is true - if there is no transcendent creator of the universe or parts of it (most importantly, no transcendent creator of life on earth and of human beings) - then there are no moral truths. In this essay, I argue for the related but different thesis that atheists have reason to accept the claim that all of their moral beliefs are unwarranted (or unjustified), a claim I refer to as "moral scepticism". After explaining atheism and providing some metaethical preliminaries, I consider some empirical findings that might be thou
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Baker, Joseph O., and Buster G. Smith. "Atheism, Agnosticism, and Irreligion." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/442.

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Research on the topics of atheism, agnosticism, and irreligion has been limited during much of the last century. We explain the reasons for a lack of research in this field and discuss the recent interest in this topic. The most recent wave of research has been concentrated during the past decade and tends to look at the dual issues of who composes the religiously unaffiliated and why they choose this self-identification. Recent research has begun to take a much wider and deeper view on the subject. This includes research on particular segments of the population such as atheists, as well as un
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Gervais, Will Martin. "Do you believe in atheists? Trust and anti-atheist prejudice." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1549.

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Recent polls (e.g., Edgell, Gerteis & Hartmann, 2006) have consistently found that atheists are the least liked group in America today, a type of prejudice that has barely been researched. This anti-atheist prejudice is surprising because atheists do not constitute a cohesive, recognizable, or powerful group. To the degree that people feel that religion provides a unique and necessary source of morality, they may dislike atheists primarily because of moral distrust towards them. This suggests a distinct origin for anti-atheist prejudice that sets it apart from ethnic, racial, and gender prejud
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Leckie, Raina. "Exploring religious bias and perceptions of atheism." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/868.

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Much research focuses on religious bias and in particular the marginalization of Muslims in America. What initially surprised post 9-11 researchers is that participants typically rank atheists lower than Muslims in the areas of private and public trust. Further research is needed to continue to understand the nature and extent of religious-based bias. The present study explores whether a job candidate's religion impacts perception of the candidate's "hireability" and source credibility, including elements of trustworthiness, expertise and attractiveness. Participants were randomly assigned to
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Ford, J. "Godless Greece : atheism in Greek society." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2017. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3009604/.

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Was atheism in the ancient world really ‘scarcely imaginable’? This thesis confronts the notion that religion was embedded in the environment and mentality of the ancient Greeks to the extent that atheism became cognitively impossible. Instead this thesis proposes that if atheism, rather than atheists, is made the focus then it is possible to examine atheism in the ancient world through a set of different thematic lenses. Atheism in ancient Greece was a highly contextual, varied, and flourishing set of phenomena. Understanding the form and evolution of atheistic ideas and atheism in Greek soci
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García, Manchón Josué Itamar. "The consequences of Dawkins' New Atheism." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546346.

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Rosenkranz, Patrick Michael. "Existential orientation : atheism, theism and individual differences." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501228.

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Existential orientation denotes to what degree an individual believes in a theistic or atheistic worldview. As a construct it is akin to religiosity but extends the measurement of religion to include secular and naturalistic beliefs. This study has developed a measurement scale that conceptualises existential orientation. The scale, termed the Existential Orientation Scale (EOS), consists of 20 statements representing theistic and atheistic beliefs. The EOS was validated on a sample of internet users (N=227) and has shown promising validity and reability measures. As a scale, it can make disti
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Britton, Wesley A. (Wesley Alan). "The Atheism of Mark Twain: The Early Years." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500523/.

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Many Twain scholars believe that his skepticism was based on personal tragedies of later years. Others find skepticism in Twain's work as early as The Innocents Abroad. This study determines that Twain's atheism is evident in his earliest writings. Chapter One examines what critics have determined Twain's religious sense to be. These contentions are discussed in light of recent publications and older, often ignored, evidence of Twain' s atheism. Chapter Two is a biographical look at Twain's literary, family, and community influences, and at events in Twain's life to show that his religious ant
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Rickard, Gary K. "The burden of proof between theism and atheism." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Hart, Kevin R. "Religious dogmatism and civil liberties literalism, atheism, and homosexuality /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2007. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5207.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2007.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 63 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61).
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Lanman, Jonathan Andrew. "A secular mind : towards a cognitive anthropology of atheism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:99ae030b-5f3a-4863-abf2-2f63eb8b4150.

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This thesis presents descriptive and explanatory accounts of both non-theism, the lack of belief in the existence of supernatural agents, and strong atheism, the moral opposition to such beliefs on the grounds that they are both harmful and signs of weak character. Based on my fieldwork with non-theist groups and individuals in the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark, an online survey of over 3,000 non-theists from over 50 countries, and theories from both the social and cognitive sciences, I offer a new account of why nations with low economic and normative threats produce high levels
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Loi, Elisabetta. "Atheism in medieval Islam : the cases of Ibn al-Rāwandī, al-Rāzī, and al-Maʻarrī". Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227589.

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The present research aims to investigate whether atheism is present in the thought of medieval Muslim thinkers. So far, these thinkers have been usually disregarded or poorly addressed in studies about the historical evolution of atheism. Previous studies about the evolution of atheism have pointed out that this concept is expressed both through the rejection of a specific, usually the most dominant religion, as well as through claims that do not aim to reject the divinity, but that considerably limit the presence of the supernatural in human affairs. In order to identify whether atheism is pr
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Fraser, Liam Jerrold. "Secret sympathy : atheists, fundamentalists, and the spirit of Protestantism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25974.

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This thesis defends two arguments. First, it is argued that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism in Britain and America share a common historical root in the English Reformation and its aftermath. This common historical root gave rise to two presuppositions instrumental in their genesis: a literal, univocal, and perspicuous understanding of Scripture, and a disruptive and substitutionary conception of divine activity in nature. Second, it is argued that these two presuppositions continue to structure both forms of thought, and support a range of shared biblical, hermeneutical, and theolog
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Tomlins, Steven. "In science we trust: Dissecting the chimera of New Atheism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28795.

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New Atheism is a neologism that is explicitly linked to four public intellectuals: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. At the heart of this movement are the five books these four atheists have written specifically on the topic of religion. Throughout the New Atheist literature science is conceptualized as the most powerful force for secularization in the modern era. This thesis is a textual discourse analysis of the New Atheist literature, with a primary focus on how the themes 'secularization' and 'science' are framed. It will explore how notions of seculari
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Cherchi, Gavina Luigia. "Atheism, dissimulation and atomism in the philosophy of John Toland." Thesis, University of London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307549.

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Baker, Joseph O. "Race, Gender, and Avowing (or Avoiding) the Stigma of Atheism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7805.

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Book Summary: When White people of faith act in a particular way, their motivations are almost always attributed to their religious orientation. Yet when religious people of color act in a particular way, their motivations are usually attributed to their racial positioning. Religion Is Raced makes the case that religion in America has generally been understood in ways that center White Christian experiences of religion, and argues that all religion must be acknowledged as a raced phenomenon. When we overlook the role race plays in religious belief and action, and how religion in turn spurs pub
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Gruber, Thomas. "Ungodly paths : a history of the idea of the Three Impostors (Moses, Jesus, Mohammad) until 1300." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729013.

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Harmon, Jonathan. "Leviathan drawn out by its tail: The religious ideas of the second half of Leviathan." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1401.

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Thesis advisor: David M. Rasmussen<br>Leviathan drawn out by its tail: The religious ideas of the second half of Leviathan Jonathan Harmon In this dissertation, I examine the religious writings of Thomas Hobbes, primarily as they occur in the second half of Leviathan (but drawing from other sources as necessary). My aim is to illustrate the continuity between Hobbes' thoughts on religion and other areas of his philosophy, especially his political theory. Hobbes' distinctive philosophical position, filtered through the lens of the Bible, is what animates the theology of the second half of Levia
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Alidoosti, Babak. "The Process and Experience of Deciding to Live Openly Atheist in a Christian Family: A Qualitative Study." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36403.

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Existing literature reveals that atheists are among the least accepted groups in America. This study examined the process atheists go through when disclosing their atheism to their religious family members. It is hoped that the information gained may benefit therapists who work with this population as they go through this potentially difficult time and adds to the currently insufficient body of research on atheism and atheists. Using the guided frameworks of grounded theory and social exchange and choice theory, a focus group was conducted with seven atheists and coded for themes. The data rev
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Bradley, David F. "Sensitivity to Potential Anti-Atheist Discrimination Events: Psychological Correlates and Relationship with Psychological Well-Being." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1523896514509333.

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Devan, Benjamin Bradford. "A Wesleyan Open Inclusivist approach to religious diversity and New Atheism." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11464/.

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Probing the “New Atheism” reveals not an isolated phenomenon, but a contemporary expression of a longer tradition of atheist advocacy and antagonism toward religion, beliefs about the Divine, and associated practices. Although not all critics of religion are atheists, and atheists display diversity among themselves, A Wesleyan Open Inclusivist Approach to Religious Diversity and New Atheism argues that New Atheists are sufficiently similar to religious people to be fruitfully approached utilizing conceptual tools that pertain to religious diversity, interaction, and dialogue. Specifically, it
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Gould, James B. "Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the false dilemma of nineteenth century German atheism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Santos, Valmor Ferreira. "Uma introdução ao movimento do neoateísmo : definições e metateses." Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Religião, 2016. http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/7146.

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This master's thesis in religious studies titled An Introduction to movement of New Atheism: definitions and metatheses aims to present an introduction to very basic problems New Atheism (NAT). The NAT is commonly associated to four people, namely Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens are considered the fathers of this set of ideas about religion. The object of this dissertation is not primarily the theses sustained by these intellectuals, but to understand the NAT itself. Regarding the research methodology is conceptual in nature, not empirical, but draws
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Tomlins, Steven. "Navigating Atheist Identities: An Analysis of Nonreligious Perceptions and Experiences in the Religiously Diverse Canadian City of Ottawa." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34444.

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There is very little research that is empirically-based about atheism in Canada; this thesis seeks to contribute foundational knowledge in this area. It begins with a historical and contemporary overview of atheism in Canada by examining its appearance in government, law, and media. It then addresses the question: “How do atheists construct their identities in the context of a religiously diverse Canada?” through an analysis of data collected from participant-observation with an atheist university club, the Atheist Community of the University of Ottawa (ACUO), followed by an analysis of five s
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Conrad, Nickolas G. "Marginalization of atheism in Victorian Britain the trials of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/n_conrad_042809.pdf.

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Hashemi, Madani Seyed Morteza. "The new order of the old : atheism in a post-secular age." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/86224/.

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The religion versus modernity dichotomy has become a platitude which is taken for granted by many researchers in the field of sociology of modernity. The dichotomy is the theoretical foundation of many violent ideologies, both religious and atheist. This thesis challenges the dichotomy and its variants – such as reason versus faith or ‘the sacred’ versus ‘the secular’ – as the results of the misreading of the history of the constitution of modernity. Modernity is historically shaped by and structurally intertwined with theology and sociologists’ need to reveal those theological forgotten roots
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Church-Hearl, Kelly E. "A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1996.

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This qualitative study aims to provide a sociological understanding of people who hold minority beliefs about spirituality and religion and to improve our sociological and social-psychological understanding of a-religious and alternatively religious people. Data were collected through indepth interviews with 10 atheist and 11 naturalist respondents. The study examines the religious histories of the respondents, how they left mainstream religion, how they adopted a minority identity with regard to religion/spirituality, and their personal experiences living in a predominately Christian area. I
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Koloszyc, David Jacob. "Religion, atheism, and the crisis of meaning in Julia Kristeva's critique of modernity." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92198.

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This study examines the development of Julia Kristeva's thought on religion and its relevance to her critique of modernity. The study argues that Kristeva's concern with the 'crisis of religion' occupies a central place in her work and permeates all of her inquiries into the linguistic, textual, literary, epistemological, subjective, social, political, and ethical dimensions of what she considers an all-encompassing 'crisis of meaning' in contemporary Western culture.<br>Chapter one considers the manner in which Kristeva's early textual practice emphasizes the necessity of a multifaceted res
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Devellennes, Charles. "The emergence of self-avowed atheism : the political philosophies of Meslier and Holbach." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.544071.

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Ingelman, Lind Erik. "Kontraomvändelse - blivandet av en ateist : en religionspsykologisk undersökning av byte från religiöst orienteringssystem till ateistiskt." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionspsykologi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-192275.

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The purpose of this study in the psychology of religion is to explore the process of an individual’s shift in orienting system, from a religious to an atheistic. The materials used are autobiographical accounts obtained from two books. One that has been used as a primary source and one as a secondary. By using Rambo’s process oriented theory of religious conversion relevant themes and categories were chosen and later subjected to further analysis using Pargament’s theory of religion and coping. In the first stage analysis themes and categories were chosen according to Rambo’s seven stages of c
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Petrarca, Ronald. "Viktor Lennstrand and Sweden's Secularization." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-34076.

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Viktor Lennstrand was the first person in Sweden to establish an organization completely devoted to atheist activism: Utilistiska samfundet. This in itself makes him an important figure in Swedish history; however, he is also significant in another way. Lennstrand had a personal connection to the leaders of the three groups which had the most influence on Sweden's long-term secularization: the Swedish Free Church movement, freethinkers, and the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party. This master's thesis is a brief examination of Lennstrand's life. It will use the secularization paradigm to
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Macdonald, Lindsey Marie. "Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73601.

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This study examines secular mommy bloggers, a group of women who blog about the difficulties of being a nonbeliever parent in a predominantly religious society. In this study, I explore the rhetorical dimensions of four separate blogs by investigating how each mother builds identity within her personal blog and how her sense of identity enables her to construct individual ethos. Furthermore, I illustrate how the individual ethos of each blogger contributes to a group ethos representing the entire secular parenting community. Ultimately, I show how these mothers rhetorically set themselves apar
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Ray, Matthew Alun. "On the principles and presuppositions of atheism and agnosticism in Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2475/.

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This thesis will be asking questions about the underlying structure of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's thoughts on atheism and agnosticism. It will begin with the work of the mature Kant, explaining how his epistemology, as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason, treated the question of the sense experience of God and then how his theory of biblical hermeneutics treated the question of divine revelation through scripture, before examining Kant's moral proof of God, finding it not to be successful. I next move to a consideration of the atheistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopen
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Katkits, Jennifer. "”Du skall älska din nästa som dig själv” : Ger kristendomen upphov till ökad empati?" Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-879.

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<p>Denna undersökning handlar om ifall kristendom kan ge upphov till ökad empati. Det bygger kring tanken att kristendom uppmanar till tolerans och förståelse, men frågan är om det verkligen stämmer. I undersökningen användes enkäter med en svensk översättning av C. D. Batsons (1994) empatiskala tillsammans med en berättelse i två versioner där huvudpersonen antingen framstod som elak eller snäll. I resultatet framkom det att kristna har en tendens till mer empati än ateister/agnostiker och att båda grupperna kände mer empati för den snälla personen än den elaka. Det framkom också, något ovänt
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Quillen, Ethan Gjerset. "Everything is fiction : an experimental study in the application of ethnographic criticism to modern atheist identity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19556.

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This Thesis is an experiment. Within its pages a number of stories will be told, the foci of which will apply a particular methodology—what I call ‘Ethnographic Criticism’—to the examination of a specific concept: modern Atheist identity. First, it will introduce Ethnographic Criticism as a new and significant style of literary analysis aimed at reading fictional texts in order to generate anthropological insights about how particular identities are formed. Second, it will use this new means of criticism to discuss and evaluate how Atheist identity might be perceived as being constructed withi
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Borer, Michael I. "Godless Americans: non-theism as an alternative American religion." Thesis, Boston University, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/36771.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>What can a study of non-theism tell us about the transformation of religious life in America? Non-theism, as an alternative religion, challenges the traditional theological and theoretical boundaries tradition
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Najle, Maxine. "DELICIOUS JUSTICE: SCHADENFREUDE TOWARD ATHEISTS BOUND FOR HELL." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/61.

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In the wake of the death of a prominent atheist figure in 2011, an especially unsavory side of anti-atheist prejudice became evident as many celebrated the death of a prominent atheist, rejoicing that he would be in hell. The current study explores how these attitudes reveal a sense of schadenfreude in anti-atheist prejudice previously unexplored in the literature. Potential origins of this schadenfreude are discussed, and a study to experimentally explore this phenomenon was carried out. Using the repeated taste-test paradigm, this study gave participants atheist primes and hell primes betwee
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Moore, Willem. "Die ateistiese oplossing vir die probleem van die kwaad." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52767.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study comprises a survey of the atheist solution to the problem of evil that has occasionally in the past been suggested by philosophers, but has largely been neglected in the philosophy of religion. Against this background, the study has two main objectives. It focusses in the first place on the reasons upon which philosophers like Mackie and McCloskey regard the giving up of one or more of the attributes of God in theism as an adequate solution to the problem of evil, considered to be the strongest argument against t
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Munro, Howard Richard John. "A Re-evaluation of the 'Death of God' Theology." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366555.

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Although the ‘death of God’ theology attracted considerable attention during the 1960s, in recent decades it has fallen into neglect. Nonetheless, the issues raised by the ‘death of God’ theology were important ones and it remains an interesting question whether the ‘death of God’ theologians were able to make substantial contributions to them. This thesis re-examines the work of the ‘death of God’ theologians. It argues that the popular view – that the ‘death of God’ theology represented a common tendency, or movement, towards atheism among certain prominent American Protestant theologians –
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Baker, Matthew J. "Psychological type and atheism : why some people are more likely than others to give up God." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/76588/.

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not psychological type plays a role in why some individuals are more likely than others to give up their childhood religious beliefs and become atheists. In order to do this, the psychological type profile of 10,515 atheist church-leavers (2,677 females and 7,838 males) was compared to the psychological type profile of 2,326 continuing churchgoers (1,137 females and 1,189 males). The results indicated that a preference for the thinking perceiving (TP) combination was over-represented in the atheist sample by a factor of 2.14 for the females
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Klug, Petra [Verfasser], Gritt [Akademischer Betreuer] Klinkhammer, Gritt [Gutachter] Klinkhammer, and Phil [Gutachter] Zuckerman. "Anti-Atheism in the United States / Petra Klug ; Gutachter: Gritt Klinkhammer, Phil Zuckerman ; Betreuer: Gritt Klinkhammer." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/117723985X/34.

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Mitake-Thiollier, Hisayo. "L'Union des Athées : une sociologie de l'athéisme contemporain en France (1970-2012)." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5040.

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La pensée athée fait partie intégrante de la société française depuis maintenant plusieurs siècles. Si de nombreux ouvrages se sont essayés à en livrer une approche idéologique ou philosophique, peu d’études se sont pourtant réellement attachées, jusqu’à maintenant, à en analyser les composantes, les subtilités, les ressorts ou les acteurs dans une démarche purement sociologique. C’est là l’objectif qui a guidé cette thèse doctorale pour enfin tenter d’apprécier plus en détails la réalité du fait athée en France. Pour appréhender au mieux cette réalité et afin d’étudier une population méconnue
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Tesař, Jan [Verfasser], Friedrich Wilhelm [Herausgeber] Graf, Milos [Herausgeber] Havelka, Przemysław [Herausgeber] Matusik, and Wessel Martin [Herausgeber] Schulze. "The History of Scientific Atheism : A Comparative Study of Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union (1954–1991) / Jan Tesař." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. http://www.v-r.de/.

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Pond, Jamie L. "LIVING WITHOUT GOD: FEMALE ATHEISTS AND STIGMA MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/sociology_etds/25.

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This study focuses upon the experiences and perceptions of women Atheists in the Southern U.S., a region which is highly religious and, therefore, has comparatively low numbers of Atheists. Taking a Symbolic Interactionist approach, I examine how these Southern Atheists understood what it means to be an “Atheist,” how they became Atheist, their strategies to manage their stigmatized identity as Atheists, and finally the role gender has in managing this stigma. I utilize a Feminist methodology to investigate and foreground women’s experiences. I conducted participant observation at 23 Atheist a
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Emelie, Alltorp. "Religion och ateism i förhållande till livstillfredsställelse och coping : Skiljer sig copingmekanismer och livstillfredsställelse åt mellan religiösa och icke-religiösa? En kvantitativ studie." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-45634.

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Syftet med studien var att jämföra grad av coping samt grad av livstillfredsställelse mellan religiösa personer och de som anser sig vara icke troende. För att testa skillnaderna mellan religiösa och ateister gjordes stickprov med data från 30 religiösa och 103 ateister. Mätinstrumentet REI skapades för att mäta graden av tro eller icke tro i avseende att jämföra resultatet mot den trosuppfattning som deltagarna själva hade angivit. Ett Mann–Whitney U test visade att det inte fanns en signifikant skillnad mellan deltagarnas självskattning av tro och resultatet från REI. Resultat från oberoende
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Najle, Maxine Belén. "ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATIC JUDGMENTS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/161.

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The measurement of religious belief has some social desirability concerns that make the development of an implicit measure of religiosity advantageous. Currently, there are few options for implicitly measuring religious belief. This study attempted to add to this literature by analyzing the automatic judgements of religious belief through the use of an implicit measure known as the MouseTrack task, allowing for the measurement of latency in the expression of these beliefs as well as the certainty of these beliefs by tracking the path taken during the decision process. A sample of 121 undergrad
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Waggoner, Brett Jordan. "ATHEISM AND THE EFFECTS OF MORTALITY SALIENCE AND LIMITED ANALYTIC PROCESSING ABILITY ON RELIGIOUS FAITH AND TELEOLOGICAL THINKIN." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1530473668176033.

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Reid, Lydia Jane. "'The secular delusion'? : how religious students negotiate their faith in a university context." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677738.

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Universities have traditionally been thought of as “secular enclaves” (Bryant, 2006: 2) that have the capacity to liberalise or even eradicate personal religious beliefs. Despite this assumption, religious activity on university campuses shows no sign of declining, due in part to the failings of the secularisation thesis and the rise of religious pluralism. In the media more recently, there have been frequent references to religious organisations on campus, in particular to clashes between Christian societies and Student Unions, and between Islamic and atheist societies. The management of reli
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