Are Believers Happier than Atheists? Well-being Measures in a Sample of Atheists and Believers in Puerto Rico by Juan Aníbal González-Rivera, Adam Rosario-Rodríguez, Eduardo L. Rodríguez-Ramos, Idania Hernández-Gato, Lourdes M. Torres-Báez

“…Currently, not much has been written about the empirical psychological well-being of the atheist community in Puerto Rico and Latin America. …”
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The revival of spiritual practices: factors influencing the “seeking deities and offering prayers” behavior of China’s Generation Z on social media in an atheistic context by Jing Wang, Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, Xiaohui Wan, Qirui Yu, Qiqi Ye

“…In a country like China, which adheres to atheistic ideology, the emergence of religious activities among the Generation Z youth provides a unique case for academic research. …”
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Will Religion Survive? A Critical Discussion of the Divergent Answers of two Atheists: Archaeologist David Lewis-Williams and Philosopher of Religion J.L.Schellenberg by Martin Prozesky

“…These questions are approached by considering a different but closely related question: Does religion have a future, as answered in important recent books by two eminent scholars, both of them atheists, working in very different academic disciplines. …”
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Religious Education in Baden-Powell’s Writings by Paola Dal Toso

“…Baden-Powell encourages all Scouts in the world to cultivate religious practice by saying: “There can be no atheist Scout”. He offers concrete insights that commit the scout educator to take on the innate religious need that many young people express in a personal search for faith motivation.…”
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Sowing the Seeds of Faith: A Case Study of an American Missionary in the Russian North by Piret Koosa

“…Since early 1990s foreign missionaries have eagerly visited the Russian Federation to disseminate God’s word among the subjects of the formerly atheist state. Different Protestant denominations have been among the most successful in gathering followers. …”
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Transgression et subversion : George Jacob Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh et l’athéisme militant à l’époque victorienne by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…In 1880, when he became an MP, Bradlaugh never stopped professing an atheistic position, which prevented him from occupying his seat in the House of Commons for six years, although he was later re-elected no less than four times. …”
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Passional Atheism, Passional Agnosticism and ‘The Will to Believe’ by Daniel Molto

“…Moreover, so can the adoption of outright atheistic belief for passional reasons.…”
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"Signs of the Times" – a Theological Basis of Ecotheology and the Christian Competence within the Frame of the Environmental Discourse by Markus Vogt

“…The second part of the essay deals with the question which competence the churches can contribute to the ecological discourse of a pluralistic, partly secular or atheistic society. I speak also about the encyclical Laudato si’. …”
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The Bible and Belief in Victorian Britain by Timothy Larsen

“…This article will demonstrate this claim by showing how pervasive the presence of the Bible was in the words, arguments, and very thought patterns even of those Victorians who were militant atheists.…”
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LEİBNİZ VE KÖTÜLÜĞÜN KAYNAĞI by Veli Urhan

“…It has no any doubt that problem of devil is of great importance for atheistic thought systems as well as theistic ones. …”
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Ritual, Power and Historical Perspective: Baptism and Name-giving in Lithuania and Latvia by Rasa Paukštytė-Šaknienė

“…Soviet rule denied “religious traditions” and tried to form a new atheistic communist culture (and traditions). The new rituals were expected to replace older religious rites because communist morality and socialist internationalism was expected to overpower bourgeois nationalism. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

“…Huxley coined the word agnostic to describe his own philosophical framework in part to distinguish himself from materialists, atheists, and positivists. In this paper I will elaborate on exactly what Huxley meant by agnosticism by discussing his views on the distinctions he drew between philosophy and science, science and theology, and between theology and religion. …”
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VOLTAIRE’S PHILOSOPHY: HUMAN NATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION by Yu. Zimaryova

“…The anthropological approach to the phenomenon of religion allows to avoid the extremity of atheistic and metaphysical approaches and to enable its anthropological interpretation.…”
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Overcoming Reductionism. On „In-depth” Systems Analysis in the Political Science of Religion by Michał Gierycz

“… The starting point of the article is the observation made by Ernst Wolfgang Böckenförde, according to which political science perceives itself as an „atheistic science in its proper sense” and documents problematic consequences of this paradigm on the grounds of „political science of religion” (such as, for example, reducing religion to ideology and Churches to groups of interests). …”
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THE ACTUALIZATION OF SEARCH OF SENSE-VITAL VALUES AS A PHILOSOPHICAL-EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM by E. G. Rogova

“…They are general for most wide-spread (atheistic and religious) varieties of the existential education in the sense-vital aspect. …”
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