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January 2023

January 02, 2023

Brian McLaren and Faith After Doubt

The book "Faith After Doubt" was authored by Brian McLaren, and released in the year...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

The History of Christianity’s Feud with Psychology

Introduction It is no surprise to science that there exists a tension or distrust between...

December 19, 2022

Magnets, the Human Brain, and God

The Brain Damage You have no doubt heard it said that we still have much...

December 12, 2022

Deconversion and “Selective Perception”

In 2019, researchers Perez and Vallieres conducted an in-depth study on the subject of deconversion....

December 05, 2022

Deconversion and “Religious Trauma Syndrome”

WHAT IS RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME? There is a phenomenon known as "Religious Trauma Syndrome" (RTS)...

December 02, 2022

Study: Could Religious People Be More Complex Thinkers Than Irreligious People

Testing Thought Complexity It's a fairly common trope: religious people are knuckle-dragging uneducated troglodytes more...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Cameron Bertuzzi and Interfaith Conversion

Cameron Bertuzzi is an influential speaker and media producer in the popular field of Christian...

November 28, 2022

“A Manual for Making Atheists”: an Imperfect Book but an Effective Movement

Peter Boghossian is a philosopher and college professor who is responsible for inventing the practice...

November 21, 2022

Ridicule and Deconversion

In his March 24th talk at the 2012 Reason Rally, popular atheist speaker Richard Dawkins...

November 14, 2022

Deconversion and the Term “Deconstruction”

I began looking onto deconversion as a journalist. I wanted to look at stories of...

November 07, 2022

Applying Behavior Analysis to Deconversion

Sometimes we want to know why people do the things they do. In my field...

October 2022

October 31, 2022

Going off to College and Losing Faith

It has almost become a trope among Christians that sending your kids off to college...

October 24, 2022

Testify! The Religious Testimony Versus the Deconversion Story

CONVERSION NARRATIVES Starbuck (1866-1947) and James (1902) were pioneers in the field of Conversion studies....

October 20, 2022

What Christian Denomination Should You Belong To? Here’s How To Choose

While the substance of this column is related to studies in religious psychology, Patheos has...

October 17, 2022

Comparison Between Religious Conversion and Deconversion

It has long been argued in religious conversion studies whether there is a significant difference...

October 10, 2022

The Deconversion Crisis

In his book The Variety of Religious Experiences, William James writes about multiple accounts of...

October 03, 2022

Doubt and Deconversion

What is ‘Doubt’ It isn’t uncommon for a person to be skeptical toward a claim....

September 2022

September 26, 2022

Five Things that Motivate Deconversion

Imagine eating a bag of salty chips. Before you begin to munch on the chips,...

September 19, 2022

Losing my Religion: Deconversion or Disaffiliation?

The first several articles in this column focused on the history of conversion research. Understanding...

September 13, 2022

Human Sacrifice and Witch Hunts

Because of the vast separation in time, location, and culture between the development of Judeo-Christian...

September 12, 2022

The Little Cult that Could, Part 2: The Rise and Fall of a Cult

The Divine Precept was a cult which had begun in Korea, attracting thousands of members....

September 08, 2022

The Little Cult that Could Part 1: how one religious movement taught us all about conversion

The Conversion of Yoon-Sook Lee Miss Yoon-Sook Lee had a problem. It started as chronic...

September 05, 2022

The Science of Religious Conversion – A Brief History

Pre-Scientific Views on Conversion People have been practicing religion since the dawn of human history,...

September 02, 2022

The Story of Switching Sides

For this first entry in Switching Sides, I would like to tell you the story...