Reading Time: 4 minutes A new poll has some Canadians looking askance at their own constitution. Canada has a long, conflicted relationship between God and country. Like our neighbor to the south, our government is ostensibly secular, our history is rooted in religion, and our people are at the moment rapidly turning away from the church. Recent polling shows […]
Nathan Alexander
Canadian writer and historian Nathan Alexander is co-host of the Beyond Atheism Podcast and author of Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 (NYU Press and Manchester University Press).
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Atheism, Race, and the Freethinker at the Turn of the 19th Century
Reading Time: 4 minutes WHAT is the historical relationship between atheism and racism? This is a question I examine in my recent book, Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2019 and NYU Press, 2019). The book looks at what atheists and other non-religious people thought about racial issues in both Britain […]