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1	What Discrimination? Christian Microaggression Rhetoric Against Nontheists Hall, Nicole Dolfi 01 December 2023 (has links) (PDF) Theories of microaggressions have been used in the last decade as a framework for studying subtle forms of discrimination against racial minorities and other marginalized groups. However, there is a dearth of research on the scope and types of microaggressions nontheists face. This qualitative study examines microaggressions against nontheists by interviewing 16 religious Christians on their experiences and opinions of the discrimination Christians and nontheists face. The narratives were analyzed for thematic patterns between the rhetoric used and the type of microaggressions employed. The study revealed nine categories of microaggressions. The findings also showed how experiences of discrimination, political viewpoint, and understanding power structures affected religious Christians’ perceptions of the discrimination nontheists may or may not experience. Knowing how anti-nontheist microaggressions are rhetorically framed contributes to the study of larger patterns of prejudice and discrimination against nontheists. religion nontheism microaggressions discrimination stigma Sociology of Religion
2	When God Dies: Deconversion from Theism as Analogous to the Experience of Death Simpson, William David 01 May 2013 (has links) In this thesis, I explore the psychological and experiential aspects of the shift from a supernatural theistic worldview (specifically born-again Christianity) to aphilosophically naturalistic and atheistic worldview in the context of the religiouslandscape in the U.S. I posit that certain features of this transition, which is known as "deconversion,” can be thought of as potentially analogous, both psychologically and subjectively, to the experience of another's death as an objective environmental change. I provide anthropological and psychological evidence that believers often experience the God of born-again Christianity as an independently existing and active agent in the world. The similarities between human relationships and God relationships provide the foundation for the claim that loss of these relationships potentially constitute similar experiences, respectively. Both shifts (deconversion and death) share a number of similarities. For example, they both feature a reduction in the number of entities that are believed perceived as having minds (i.e., theory of mind determinations). Also, both shifts require a re-understanding of purpose and meaning in the world (i.e., teleological reasoning). I explore each of these shifts in detail. Finally, I show that the interpretation of the deconversion experience as analogous to the experience of death has implications for the public dialogue between Christians and atheists. Atheism Agnosticism Naturalism Grief Secularity Interreligious Theology Nontheism Religion Philosophy Christianity Philosophy Religion
3	Seeing it Straight Harvey, Heather 01 January 2007 (has links) This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. This has nothing to do with mysticism, science fiction, or anything else unmoored from established fact. Section also touches on the particular vantage of a female artist with working class roots.THE WORK: Selection of work made during graduate school, and the the guiding thoughts behind each.EMPTINESS, STILLNESS, ABSENCE, GHOSTS, DOUBT: A discussion of influential artists and ideas. sacred faith disbelief doubt funny transformation strange humor secret comical silly nontheism skepticism playful catholic secular working class philosophy ethics aesthetic myth painting sculpture installation site specific emptiness absence ghosts chaos erotic violent gross mortal corporeal mourning doubt indeterminate mystery ambiguity uncertainty sensual strange infrastructure architecture abeyance transient fleeting liminal intangible unseen gothic ostranenie uncanny undecided quiet ineffable atheism mold holes decay loss damage Art and Design Arts and Humanities

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