{"id":11246,"date":"2019-09-11T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=11246"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:20:09","slug":"lois-lee-believers-guide-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/09\/11\/lois-lee-believers-guide-atheism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lee featured on BBC Radio 4 &#8216;A Believer&#8217;s Guide to Atheism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lois Lee, Senior Research Fellow in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/religious-studies\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m00088n8\">BBC Radio 4 documentary &#8216;A Believer&#8217;s Guide to Atheism&#8217;<\/a>, which examines how atheism in Britain today is becoming an increasingly complicated tapestry of beliefs and non-beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Lois is Programme Leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/understandingunbelief\/\">Understanding Unbelief<\/a> programme, a major research programme aiming to advance the scientific understanding of atheism and other forms of so-called \u2018unbelief\u2019 around the world. Its central research questions concern the nature and diversity of \u2018unbelief\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lois&#8217; own work focuses on the way in which social structures and regional cultures shape the religious and existential beliefs and commitments of so-called unbelievers, addressing questions about the nature and diversity of those beliefs and commitments.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, Lois explained that she sees big changes in the pattern of atheism. &#8220;I think there are a number of quite big transformations going on,&#8221; Lois said; &#8220;Now, we&#8217;ve got to a stage where we&#8217;re not interested in what people don&#8217;t believe in but what they do believe in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Lois Lee, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies, featured in the BBC Radio 4 documentary &#8216;A Believer&#8217;s Guide to Atheism&#8217;, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/09\/11\/lois-lee-believers-guide-atheism\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34790,"featured_media":11248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions\/11254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}