Check out the latest article from NCF postdoctoral fellow, Chris Miller (@cmillerphd.bsky.social), exploring the growing place of animals in obituaries "The Furry Friends We Leave Behind: Human–Animal Relationships Commemorated in Obituaries" Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A big congratulations to Jacob Legault-Leclair who successfully defended his PhD dissertation last week titled "Secular Transition and Religious Transmission in Canada, Australia, the United States and Europe: A Quantitative Analysis of Migration and Family Religious Socialization."

Check out the latest article from the NCF's Education project, by Solange Lefebvre: "Éducation, valeurs, diversité et religions au Québec et en Ontario" Read here: www.cje-rce.ca/index.php/cj...

Next up in our Maple Spirit Pulse series: a discussion of the current Bill 21 (laïçité) case with the Supreme Court of Canada, led by our PhD fellow Jacob Legault-Leclair: youtu.be/vL7QmScR4tw @nonreligioncf.bsky.social @camacgregor.bsky.social @sssreligion.bsky.social @stjeromesuni.bsky.social

Quebec's Bill 21 and the Supreme Court of Canada

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Read the latest article from the NCF's Death and Dying project, "What death doulas can teach us about dying well without religion," by Chris Miller (@cmillerphd.bsky.social), Douglas Ezzy, and Lori G. Beaman theconversation.com/what-death-d...

What death doulas can teach us about dying well without religion

As religious affiliation declines, the rituals and guidance it once provided around dying have disappeared for many people. Death doulas fill that gap.

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Check out the new special issue, “Religion and Covid-19,” co-edited by NCF Co-I Solange Lefebvre. It presents the key findings of a comparative research project on how religious communities in Germany, Poland, Ireland/Northern Ireland, and Canada responded to the pandemic. brill.com/view/journal...

New from me, with Lori Beaman and Douglas Ezzy. Based on our research with @nonreligioncf.bsky.social on end of life care

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

What death doulas can teach us about dying well without religion

New research by #SociologyOfReligion scholars from the @uottawa.ca Nonreligion in a Complex Future project suggests death doulas "are filling a gap that both medicine and religion have traditionally occupied." @nonreligioncf.bsky.social @utas.edu.au theconversation.com/what-death-d...

What death doulas can teach us about dying well without religion

As religious affiliation declines, the rituals and guidance it once provided around dying have disappeared for many people. Death doulas fill that gap.

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Missed our latest webinar on whether a religious revival is taking place? The recording is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=glgP... @joelthiessen.bsky.social @conradhackett.bsky.social @ircsf.bsky.social @csrs-uvic.bsky.social

Wishful Thinking? Is There a Religious Revival?

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Happening tomorrow!!

Nonreligion in a Complex Future@nonreligioncf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Register now for our upcoming webinar, co-hosted with the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, "Wishful Thinking? Is There a Religious Revival?," happening on Zoom on May 27 from 12:30pm-2pm ET. Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New article from NCF postdoc fellow Guilherme Borges: “Que Deus tenha misericórdia desta nação”: uma releitura, dez anos depois, da presença religiosa no impeachment de Dilma Rousseff [“May God Have Mercy on This Nation”: Revisiting Religious Presence in Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment Ten Years Later]

Our Director Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme will be part of this panel!

Nonreligion in a Complex Future@nonreligioncf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Register now for our upcoming webinar, co-hosted with the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, "Wishful Thinking? Is There a Religious Revival?," happening on Zoom on May 27 from 12:30pm-2pm ET. Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Register now for our upcoming webinar, co-hosted with the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, "Wishful Thinking? Is There a Religious Revival?," happening on Zoom on May 27 from 12:30pm-2pm ET. Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A majority in most countries included in the @nonreligioncf.bsky.social’s 2023 CSVS survey support the principle of freedom of religion, but in most of these same countries (except Brazil + USA) less than 50% of respondents also disagree with potential limits placed on minority religious practices.

Check out Ryan Cragun's recent talk with the Central Florida Freethought Community about the book, Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXjv...

Unearthing Lifestances w/Ryan Cragun

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Missed last week's book launch for Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries? Watch it now here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNrM...

Book Launch: Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries

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A new Canadian study suggests young adults worship most frequently. www.cardus.ca/research/spi... This study canvassed panelists in the Angus Reid Forum, a survey panel that accepts volunteers. The study is not based on a random sample of the Canadian population.

Conrad Hackett@conradhackett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There's a lot of buzz about Christian revival among young adults in the UK & US. Perceptions of revival are fueled by results from opt-in online surveys. However, these surveys may be misleading. Surveys from random samples of the population don't show any clear evidence of revival. My new post:

Informative video discussing the nuances between non-religious identification and beliefs in the 'Arab world', much of the discussion resonates with my research on non-religious refugees in and beyond this context: 👁️‍🗨️ youtu.be/Oy3JuwGJWBE?...

Is Atheism Growing in the Arab World?

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Missed the recent Unearthing Lifestances book launch?? The recording is now available to watch on YouTube: youtu.be/Ydj57K317eg

Book Launch: Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion

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The NCF Project invites you to an upcoming virtual book launch for our new book, Religion and Nonreligion in Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Emerging Imaginaries (De Gruyter, 2026). Date: March 9, 2026 Time: 1:00 pm ET Register: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thrilled to share my *first* academic paper has been published in Secularism and Nonreligion! 🎉 I talk about the emotional journeys of leaving religion & navigating the British asylum system. Read it here 👉 secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/232...

This is a reminder that there is still time to register for the NCF's virtual book launch to celebrate the release of the new book, Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (De Gruyter, 2026) February 24 4pm ET Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔴NEW PUBLICATION🔴 "Religiosity is Declining BUT Giving is Increasing: Can the Nonreligious Really Be Less Generous?" by Ryan T. Cragun, Alexandra Rodriguez, Jesse Smith and David Speed. Read the paper here: 🔗 doi.org/10.5334/snr.... #NonReligion #SociologyOfReligion #ReligiousNones #AcademicSky

What can community gardens tell us about nonreligion? How have debates over same-sex marriage revealed the boundaries between religion and nonreligion? Has there been a religious revival in the UK? Find out about all this and more in this edition of the NCF's newsletter: mailchi.mp/nonreligionp...

New episode of the Lifestances Podcast is now available! Ep. 7: Religion and Nonreligion in the Classroom: Educating for a Diverse World Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5EVs...

Our first webinar of 2026 will be a chance to reflect on, discuss, and share experiences of teaching histories of atheism, secularism, and humanism. Join us on Wed 18 February - just get in touch to register, all welcome! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

The NCF invites you to an upcoming virtual book launch for the newest book from our team, Unearthing Lifestances: What Community Gardens Tell Us About Nonreligion (De Gruyter, 2026). Date: February 24, 2026 Time: 4:00 pm ET Register here: uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Has there been a religious revival in the UK? In this article, @conradhackett.bsky.social (Pew Research) digs into this question and shows how the use of certain survey methods can offer a skewed picture www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading

Despite the widely recognized decline of Christianity in the U.K., there have been persistent rumblings of a Christian resurgence.

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Announcing the 8th Freethought History Webinar, ft. Lucie Lemieux on the secularist and feminist life and career of Annie Besant, one-time vice president of @natsecsoc.bsky.social. Happening on 3 March! More info and how to register 👇 freethinker.co.uk/2026/01/free...

Freethought History Webinar #8: Annie Besant, Secularist and Feminist. With Lucie Lemieux (3 March 2026). - The Freethinker

An invitation to the eighth in our Freethought History Webinar series.

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New from NCF team member Guilherme Borges, "Secular Religious Education? Brief Reflections Based on a Brazilian Case" in the NSRN blog @thensrn.bsky.social thensrn.org/2026/01/17/s...

Secular Religious Education? Brief Reflections Based on a Brazilian Case

Guilherme Borges is a postdoctoral researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning and at the Nonreligion in a Complex Future project, based at the University of Ottawa. Drawing on the…

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