Questions You Should Never Ask an Atheist: Towards Better Measures of Nonreligion and Secularity
Citation: Cragun, Ryan T. 2019. “Questions You Should Never Ask an Atheist: Towards Better Measures of Nonreligion and Secularity.” Secularism and Nonreligion 8:1–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.122. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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Mapping Religion’s Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity
Citation:Smith, Jesse M., and Ryan T. Cragun. 2019. “Mapping Religion’s Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 58(2):319–35. doi: . This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves (Almost) Everyone
Description: Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance explores the ways Christian women in college make sense of bisexual, transgender, polyamorous, and atheist others. Specifically, it explores the ways they express tolerance for some sexual groups, such as lesbian and gay people, while maintaining condemnation of other sexual, gendered, or religious groups. In so doing, […]
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Agnostic, Atheistic, and Nonreligious Orientations
Citation: Hwang, Karen and Ryan T. Cragun. 2017. “Agnostic, Atheistic, and Non-Religion Orientations.” Pp. 309–33 in Better Health Through Spiritual Practices: A Guide to Religious Behaviors and Practices that Benefit Mind and Body, edited by D. VonDras. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. You can download this book chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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Organized Secularism in the United States: New Directions in Research
Description: There has been a dramatic increase in the percentage of the US population that is not religious. However, there is, to date, very little research on the social movement that is organizing to serve the needs of and advocate for the nonreligious in the US. This is a book about the rise and structure […]
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No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections in the Evaluation of Religious and Nonreligious Others
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., and J. E. Sumerau. 2017. “No One Expects a Transgender Jew: Religious, Sexual and Gendered Intersections in the Evaluation of Religious and Nonreligious Others.” Secularism and Nonreligion 6(0):1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.82. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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United States of America: Secularist, Humanist, Atheist, and Freethought Bus Advertisements in the United States; Functions, Responses, and Effectiveness
Citation:Homan, Casey P., Marcus Mann, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2016. “United States of America: Secularist, Humanist, Atheist, and Freethought Bus Advertisements in the United States; Functions, Responses, and Effectiveness.” Pp. 369–94 in The Atheist Bus Campaign: Global Manifestations and Responses, edited by S. Tomlins and S. Bullivant. Leiden ; Boston: Brill Academic Pub. This book chapter […]
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Defining That Which is “Other to” Religion: Secularism, Humanism, Atheism, Freethought, etc.
Citation:Cragun, Ryan T. 2016. “Defining That Which is ‘Other to’ Religion: Secularism, Humanism, Atheism, Freethought, Etc.” Pp. 1–16 in Religion: Beyond Religion, Macmillan Reference USA, edited by P. Zuckerman. New York City: MacMillan Publishing Company. This book chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)
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