Māori atheism: a decolonising project? by Masoumeh Rahmani, Peter Adds, Rebekah Senanayake

“…Our analysis shows that Māori atheism is plural and often politically charged. Religion is commonly viewed as a colonial tool for the oppression of Māori people/culture, against which atheism stands as a decolonising project. …”
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Faith No More Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 224 pages, ISBN: 9780199740017 by Nafiye Aydın

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The Influence of Popular Culture’s Interpretation of Noah’s Ark upon Evangelical Reading and Interpretation by Anna Hutchinson

“…This paper shows that evangelical readers were influenced by the interpretations of the Noah story in the spheres of science, new atheism, children’s books and films, and this affected the conclusions they came to about the issue of historicity, morality and applicability. …”
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The Variety of Religiosities in Contemporary Turkey by Sarah Demmrich, Hasan Kaplan, Abdulkerim Şenel

“…The categories deism, non-belief/atheism, and religiously indecisiveness cover 7.2 % in total. …”
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THE NEW (ATHEIST) WOMAN: A LEGACY OF THE 1960S CULTURAL REVOLUTION? by Janet Eccles

“…To what might we attribute these defections and the taking up of a new nonreligious identity?  Was it the change in sexual mores and the rise of second wave feminism, the increase in women entering higher education opening up new worldviews to them or increasing affluence? …”
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M. T. Ramírez. The body by itself. From the phenomenology of the body to an ontology of the embodied self / trans. from Span. А. К. Zhaparova by А. К. Zhaparova

“…The intention of this article is to present a way in which it is possible to formulate a new Ontology, a new conception of Being and existence, a realistic, materialistic ontology of the corporal being inasmuch the extra-corporal being.…”
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«THE HERO OF OUR TIME» QUIZ IN OGONIOK WEEKLY: PRACTICES OF CONSTRUCTING THE IMAGE OF A NEW MAN IN THE 1920s by A. Tantsevova

“…"The Hero of our Time" quiz was aimed at formation of new character- istic features of the Soviet man and dissemination of a new representation of moral values such as social optimism, industriousness, patriotism, international socialist solidarity and atheism. …”
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Reversing the Invention of Religio by Manuel Galzerano

“…Respecting Epicurus’ caveat against atheism, Lucretius manipulates the Sisyphus fragment and uses it as a pars destruens against ancient religious beliefs and Roman public religion, in order to make space for a new Epicurean theology. …”
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“They went out from us, but they did not belong to us”. On the history of renegading of the former theologian Alexander Osipov by Alexander Prilutskii, Sergey Firsov

“…Osipov, compiled by Father Vasily in 1999, and now also a historical document that allows us to evaluate the psychology of perception of what happened in 1959 by a clergyman who survived the times of the atheism and assessed Soviet atheism from the point of view of new, «post-Soviet» realities.…”
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‘Te ongelovig om atheïst te zijn’ by Egbert Ribberink, Dick Houtman

“…The relation between the public influence of religion and the reaction of atheism offers new theoretical and empirical possibilities for the study of religion in the context of secular societies. …”
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ابن رشد کےکلامی وسیاسی افکاراور مغربی فکر وتہذیب: ایک تحقیقی مطالعہ by Dr Ahmad, Kamran Ali

“…The Western theology is weak and hence it faced the challenge of atheism, while the Muslim scholarship especially Averroes has guided the West in the dark age and helped it in making new thoughts. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…Annie Besant published several autobiographical texts from 1878, starting with the preface to My Path to Atheism, when she was vice-president of the National Secular Society. …”
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Emigration of South Africans to the West: Sociological and missiological implications by Christopher Magezi

“…The article dialogued with relevant literature to accomplish the proposed objective and provide an overview of the push and pull factors of why South Africans emigrate to the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, New Zealand and many other countries, all of which used to send missionaries abroad, but they are now experiencing exponential growth in atheism. …”
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“Opening the era”: to the 100th anniversary of establishing Soviet weekly magazine "Ogonyok" by A. V. Tantsevova

“…Using a variety of text and visual genres, Ogonyok conveyed the new values of the Soviet state (patriotism, collectivism, atheism, social optimism, the cult of work, the cult of a healthy body) with the help of which a new model of human relations was formed. …”
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