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How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps

    Description: Do you want the greatest challenges of the day to be addressed with thoughtful, reality-based solutions rather than with cherry-picked quotations from scripture? Do you want to shrink religion—especially fundamentalist religion—to the point that it plays no noticeable role in American public life? Do you want right-wing religious leaders to be so […]

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What You Don’t Know about Religion (but should)

What is a religion? Why are people religious? Are religious people more educated than nonreligious people? Are religious people more moral, more humble, or happier? Are religious people more or less prejudiced than nonreligious people? Is religion good for your health? Are people becoming more or less religious? What You Don’t Know About Religion (but […]

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Science and Religion

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T. 2015. “Science and Religion” edited by James Wright. International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences 172–75. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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The Nonreligious-Nonspiritual Scale (NRNSS): Measuring Everyone from Atheists to Zionists

Citation:Cragun, Ryan T., Joseph H. Hammer, and Michael Nielsen. 2015. “The Nonreligious-Nonspiritual Scale (NRNSS): Measuring Everyone from Atheists to Zionists.” Science, Religion, and Culture 2(3):36–53. doi: http://doi.org/10.17582/journal.src/2015/2.3.36.53. Science, Religion, and Culture is an open-access journal.  You can download the article directly from their site.  Or you can download it here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.) […]

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North America

Cragun, Ryan T., Joseph H. Hammer, and Jesse M. Smith. 2013. “North America.” Pp. 601–21 in The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, edited by Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. This chapter can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Who Are the “New Atheists”?

Citation: Cragun, Ryan T. 2014. “Who Are the ‘New Atheists’?.” Pp. 195–211 in Atheist Identities: Spaces and Social Contexts, edited by Lori Beamon and Steven Tomlins. New York: Springer. You can download this chapter here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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‘‘I Don’t Need a Shotgun, Just a Look’’: Representing Manhood in Secular and Religious Magazines

Citation: Sumerau, J. E., M. N. Barringer, and Ryan T. Cragun. 2015. “‘I Don’t Need a Shotgun, Just a Look’ Representing Manhood in Secular and Religious Magazines.” Men and Masculinities 18(5):581–604. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X14564009. Download this article here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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Men Who Hold More Egalitarian Attitudes Toward Women Working Outside the Home in the US: Who Are They?

Reference: Cragun, Ryan T., and J. Edward Sumerau. 2014. “Men Who Hold More Egalitarian Attitudes Toward Women Working Outside the Home in the US: Who Are They?” The Human Prospect: A Neohumanist Perspective 4(1):10–24. This article can be downloaded here. (Image generated using DALL-E 3.)

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