In the introduction to this special issue, we set the agenda for researching the aspirations and practices of godless people who seek to thin out religion in their daily lives. We reflect on why processes of disengagement from religion have not been adequately researched in anthropology. Locating this issue's articles in the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, we argue for the importance of a comparative investigation to analyze people's reluctance to pursue religion.
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Introduction
Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism
Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Chasing the Secular
Methodological Reflections on How to Make the Secular Tangible
Birgitte Schepelern Johansen
folket: De postkristna svenskarna och religionen [The godless people: The post-Christian Swedes and religion]. Stockholm : Molin & Sorgenfrei Akademiska . Thurfjell , David , Cecilie Rubow , Atko Remmel , and Henrik Ohlsson . 2019
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2022
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- Research Article
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- 126–139 (14 total)
Contextualizing the Religious Survey
Possibilities and Limitations
Astrid Krabbe Trolle
. London : Routledge . Thurfjell , David . 2019 . Det gudlösa folket: De postkristna svenskarna och religionen [The godless people: The post-Christian Swedes and religion]. Stockholm : Norstedts . Trolle , Astrid Krabbe . 2015 . “ Blandt
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 151–163 (13 total)
The Relocation of Transcendence
Using Schutz to Conceptualize the Nature Experiences of Secular People
David Thurfjell, Cecilie Rubow, Atko Remmel, and Henrik Ohlsson
folket: De postkristna svenskarna och religionen [Godless people: Post-Christian Swedes and religion]. Stockholm : Molin & Sorgenfrei . Västrik , Ergo-Hart . 2015 . “ In Search of Genuine Religion: The Contemporary Estonian Maausulised Movement and
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 190–214 (25 total)
Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom
Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro—the “Madman of the Marañon River,” Cárlos Oyague y Calderón—the State Engineer, and Roger Casement—“Not of the Real World” Humanitarian
Rupert J. M. Medd and Hélène Guyot
epidemic of unprecedented crimes, of lawless and godless people!!!” ( 1928: 59 ). Casement suffered the same disillusionment, leading Vargas Llosa to describe him as having been a “very tragic figure … a very difficult life: solitude, prejudices around