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June 2023

June 26, 2023

Deconversion and Midlife Crisis

William James and other conversion researchers have long noted that adolescence is a time of...

May 2023

May 08, 2023

What Deconversion Researchers Do and Do not Know

A Rise in Atheism In the year 2000, atheism was a social curiosity in America....

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...

March 13, 2023

Lone Christians: People who Exit the Church but not the Faith

Today, nearly half of America is unchurched. But even though more and more Americans are abandoning...

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Research into Religious Deconversion Flourishes in the Post Christian West

A Brief History of Conversion Research Ever since William James’ landmark study, A Variety of...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

Deconversion and “Selective Perception”

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

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...

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...