Constructing an Atheist Identity
I recently read Jesse M. Smith’s “Becoming an Atheist in America: Constructing Identity and Meaning from the Rejection of Theism” which you can read in the journal Sociology of Religion if you have...
View ArticleRejecting the Skeptic Identity
Do you identify yourself as a skeptic? Sarah Moglia, event specialist for the SSA and blogger at RantaSarah Rex prefers to describe herself as an atheist rather than a skeptic. Her explanation for why...
View ArticleHipster Atheism?
I once had a discussion with a friend who was concerned about climate change. He didn’t like the word environmentalist because he saw himself as a realist as opposed to whatever he imagined an...
View ArticleLabels and the rejection of feminist identity
I thought Ronald A. Lindsay’s talk at Women in Secularism 2 was pretty reasonable, but a controversy erupted over his comments (or perhaps a continuation of a seemingly endless series of...
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