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Non+Religion Research Brief is a podcast featuring short discussions of peer-reviewed social science research on nonreligion and religion. Typical episodes offer five-minute summaries of journal articles. Occasionally, longer episodes will take a deeper look at especially important studies. Episodes are AI-generated, curated editorially, and designed to help listeners keep up with research across disciplines. All episodes encourage engagement with the original scholarship and are not a substitute for reading the full publications.
NSRN hosts Non+Religion Research Brief, a science show with 23 episodes published.
This qualitative study investigates the healthcare experiences and mental well-being of atheists, deists, and agnostics living in Türkiye, a predominantly Muslim society. The researchers conducted interviews with 17 part
Show notesIn this 2026 article from the Journal of Contemporary Religion, Elaine Schnabel investigates how individuals who leave the church help define modern Christian identity through their personal stories. By interviewing 45 f
Show notesBreskaya and Pereira Arena’s 2024 article, "Religious Nones and Spirituality: A Comparison between Italian and Uruguayan Youth," utilizes survey data from over 2,000 university students to challenge the oversimplificatio
Show notesThis article explores Thomas Luckmann’s influential perspective on secularization, framing it not as a simple decline in faith but as a modern myth of origin. The author explains that this "myth" serves as a narrative fo
Show notesThis academic article explores the social and political status of atheism in Malaysia, a nation where national identity is deeply intertwined with Islamic and theistic principles. The authors characterize Malaysia as a p
Show notesThis research explores why American Christians frequently harbor a deep-seated distrust toward atheists. Across four distinct studies, the authors identify a dual-pathway model consisting of internal and external factors
Show notesThis research paper investigates the nature and diversity of secular worldviews by analyzing the beliefs of nearly 1,000 nonreligious individuals across 10 different countries. Rather than treating nonbelief as a mere ab
Show notesIn this article, scholars Galen Watts and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme propose a significant revision to the secularization paradigm by introducing the concept of a secular sacred canopy. While traditional theories suggest tha
Show notesThis research study investigates the psychological and social experiences of individuals in the United States who were raised in the Islamic faith but have since transitioned to a nonbelieving worldview. The authors iden
Show notesAppropriating the “Soul”: Evolving Understandings in Canada and the United States Gaudette, Cragun, and Beaman’s 2025 article, "Appropriating the 'Soul': Evolving Understandings in Canada and the United States," investig
Show notesThis essay by Florian Zappe explores the evolution of secular ethics through the lens of the three Humanist Manifestos published between 1933 and 2003. Zappe argues that these documents function as strategic activist int
Show notesThis research article by Matthew Conrad and Conrad Hackett examines how methodological shifts in surveys and censuses can falsely inflate the reported growth of religiously unaffiliated populations. While secularization
Show notesThis research article by Alexandr Zamușinski examines The Clergy Project (TCP), an international support network designed for religious leaders who no longer believe in the supernatural. The study challenges common misco
Show notesThis article, "Invisible secularity: American theism beyond belief," argues that traditional social indicators like church attendance and religious affiliation actually mask a more profound decline in personal religiosit
Show notesThis research article by Jonathan Simmons explores the overlooked experiences of Indigenous atheists in Canada, a group often ignored due to the stereotype that Indigenous identity is inherently spiritual. Through interv
Show notesThis deep-dive podcast explores the "Exvangelical" movement through the lens of Bethany Gull's research, focusing on how former white evangelical Christians in the U.S. utilize specific culturally available narratives to
Show notesThis article explores the Participation-Importance-Belonging (P-I-B) sequence, a robust model that explains the consistent stages of secularization observed worldwide. It unpacks how modernization and the rise of secular
Show notesThis study utilizes structural topic modeling to analyze over 1,600 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022, seeking to organize the complex global debate surrounding secularization. The researchers identify th
Show notesThis scholarly article by Maria Vliek examines the personal narratives of individuals in the Netherlands and Britain who have transitioned out of Islam. Moving beyond a narrow focus on "loss of faith," Vliek identifies f
Show notesThis article explores how debates about ghosts became a key battleground in China’s early twentieth-century struggle over modernity. Using a large dataset of historical newspapers and periodicals, the authors analyze how
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