On obscene and civil forms of nonreligion

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Notes

1 This development is well illustrated by the recent research projects Understanding Unbelief (2017–2021), Explaining Atheism (2022–2024), Nonreligion in the Complex Future (2019–) and Multiple Secularities (2016–2024).

2 If Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes is anything to go by in the study of religion, the oft-cited sentence “Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood” points to the possibility of the “ordinary” miserable Irish childhood while Turpin describes the only possible (miserable) Irish childhood as a Catholic one.

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Funding

The article was written with support from John Templeton Foundation grant “Understanding Unbelief in Estonia”, the Baltic Sea Foundation’s grant “Relocation of transcendence: The sacred of the seculars around the Baltic Sea”; Estonian Research Council grant “Estonian environmentalism in the twentieth century: Ideology, discourses, practices” (PRG 908), and EEA Financial Mechanism Baltic Research Programme in Estonia (EMP340).