Activism matters is a series where we meet activists and leaders working in a variety of atheist, humanist, and secularist spaces. This week I spoke with Nathan Alexander and Todd Tavares, hosts of the Beyond Atheism podcast.
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Community matters: How many AHS+ groups do we need?
A new series explores the challenges and opportunities facing atheist, humanist, secularist, and similar communities in a post-pandemic world. The series includes practical advice and strategic analysis, starting with asking, how many AHS+ groups do we need?
It’s all ‘real religion’
Selectively labelling particular positive or negative manifestations of religion as ‘real’, however well intentioned, undermines pluralism, privileges particular unevidenced beliefs and bolsters both religious supremacism and anti-religious bigotry.
Asking atheists: five social experiments
Are atheists less prone to pareidolia? What drives partisanship among non-religious voters? What’s the link between tolerance, religiosity, and religious literacy? Thinking about the social research of atheists I’d be most interested in.
Why proportional representation is an AHS+ issue
Democracy has played a crucial role in atheist, humanist, and secularist philosophy. To achieve their political and social goals, the atheist, and wider AHS+ movement must support proportional representation.
Activism matters: Paul Golin, Society for Humanistic Judaism
Activism matters is a new interview series where we meet activists and leaders working in a variety of atheist, humanist, and secularist spaces. This week we spoke with Paul Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism.
The impact of 9/11 on the atheist movement
9/11 changed the way we talk about religious fundamentalism and helped pave the way for the new atheist movement. But the influence of post 9/11 attitudes and foreign policy on the atheist movement since may be more nuanced and overstated than some narratives suggest.
Activism matters: Nick Fish, American Atheists
Nick Fish is an experienced civil rights activist and president of American Atheists. In the activism matters series we meet activists and leaders working in a variety of atheist, humanist, and secularist spaces.
Were the ‘Brights’ really the worst idea?
The suggestion in the early 2000’s that atheist rebrand themselves as ‘Brights’ is generally remembered as a short-lived embarrassment of incredible hubris. Is that a little unfair, and are there positive lessons to learn from the idea?
Activism matters: Dale McGowan, Raising Freethinkers
Dale McGowan author of Raising Freethinkers. Dale has been one of the most prominent authors talking about humanistic approaches to parenting, and his activism has encompassed a wide range of humanitarian work.
