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Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 17-Apr-2021 to 23-Apr-2021.
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Ask Faye 11: Bucket Lists to Fill With Flights
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Faye Girsh is the Founder and the Past President of the Hemlock Society of San Diego. She was the President of the National Hemlock Society (Defunct) and the World Federation of RTD Societies (Extant). Currently, she is on the Advisory Board of the Final Exit Network and the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization. Here… Read more »
Ask Jon 24: Unions and Humanism on Labour Day
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about labor rights and Secular Humanism. *Interview conducted on September 7, 2020.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, there are some – I wouldn’t call them – peripheral issues. It’s just not-covered-as-much issues because other things take up the… Read more »
Ask Professor Burge 9: Religion as Behaviour, Belief, and Belonging
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Professor Ryan Burge‘s website states: “I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science as well as the Graduate Coordinator at Eastern Illinois University. I teach in a variety of areas, including American institutions, political behavior, and research methods. My research focuses largely on the intersection between religiosity and political behavior (especially in… Read more »
Ask Jon 23: Magical Thinking By No Name
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about magical thinking. *Interview conducted on October 5, 2020.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what is magical thinking? And how does this apply to advanced industrial societies, with highly educated people in various parts of the society still… Read more »
Ask Professor Burge 8: Religious Identity and Political Warmth (or Lack Thereof)
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Professor Ryan Burge‘s website states: “I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science as well as the Graduate Coordinator at Eastern Illinois University. I teach in a variety of areas, including American institutions, political behavior, and research methods. My research focuses largely on the intersection between religiosity and political behavior (especially in… Read more »