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August 2023

August 28, 2023

The Anatomy of Deconversion: A Book Review

John Marriott is far from the first researcher to look into the process of deconversion,...

March 2023

March 20, 2023

Psychology and Religious Deconversion: What we Know so far

The Beginning of High Profile Deconversion In modern times, the first high-profile Christians to make...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Leftward Drift: Why Deconverts Begin at the Religious Right and Migrate to the Atheist Left

In 2009, during the height of the “New Atheism” trend, but a comfortable distance...

January 2023

January 09, 2023

Deconversion and “Cuss-Words”

Thirty or forty years ago, investigating the phenomenon of religious deconversion would have been a...

December 2022

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 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 17, 2022

Comparison Between Religious Conversion and Deconversion

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

September 2022

September 19, 2022

Losing my Religion: Deconversion or Disaffiliation?

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