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Atheisms Unbound: The Role of the New Media in the Formation of a Secularist Identity Cover

Atheisms Unbound: The Role of the New Media in the Formation of a Secularist Identity

Open Access
|Feb 2012

Abstract

In this article we examine the Internet’s role in facilitating a more visible and active secular identity. Seeking to situate this more visible and active secularist presence—which we consider a form of activism in terms of promoting the importance of secularist concerns and issues in public discourse—we conclude by looking briefly at the relationship between secularist cyber-activism and secular organizations, on one hand, and the relationship between secularist activism and American politics on the other. This allows us to further underscore the importance of the Internet for contemporary secularists as it helps develop a group consciousness based around broadly similar agendas and ideas and secularists’ recognition of their commonality and their expression in collective action, online as well as off.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.ab | Journal eISSN: 2053-6712
Language: English
Published on: Feb 21, 2012
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2012 Christopher Smith, Richard Cimino, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.