Citations:atheism

...and having no other religious belief

 * 1915 August 25, in The Pacific, volume 65, number 34, page 10:
 * The first day was given to Christianity, Judaism and Atheism; the second to Hinduism and the third to Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Mohammedanism, Buddhism [...]
 * 2008, Rethinking leadership in a complex, multicultural, and global environment, edited by Adrianna J. Kezar, page 143:
 * If you were ever asked, how long do you think you would be able to talk intelligently about the particulars of their faiths with students, staff, and others who might represent such backgrounds as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, atheism, Judaism, or Taoism?
 * 2010, Transforming Palliative Care in the Nursing Home: The Social Work Role, edited by Mercedes E. Bern-Klug, page 260:
 * But it is important to remember that a nursing home staff will likely encounter other belief systems, including atheism, Hinduism, Buddhism, agnosticism, Wicca, and Native American religious practices, to name a few. The importance of this variation cannot be taken lightly.
 * 2008, Rethinking leadership in a complex, multicultural, and global environment, edited by Adrianna J. Kezar, page 143:
 * If you were ever asked, how long do you think you would be able to talk intelligently about the particulars of their faiths with students, staff, and others who might represent such backgrounds as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, atheism, Judaism, or Taoism?
 * 2010, Transforming Palliative Care in the Nursing Home: The Social Work Role, edited by Mercedes E. Bern-Klug, page 260:
 * But it is important to remember that a nursing home staff will likely encounter other belief systems, including atheism, Hinduism, Buddhism, agnosticism, Wicca, and Native American religious practices, to name a few. The importance of this variation cannot be taken lightly.

...(probably, ambiguous usage)

 * 2000, Wade Clark Roof, Contemporary American Religion, volume 1, page 40:
 * Atheism is less frequent than agnosticism, which says of ultimate reality, "I don't know," usually also meaning, "You don't know either."

...(probably a mention, not a use)

 * 2009,, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 779:
 * At the time, doubt was generally given the blanket label atheism, just as a whole variety of sexual practices of which society pretended to disapprove were given the blanket label sodomy.

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 * 1989, Taitetsu Unno, The religious philosophy of Nishitani Keiji: encounter with emptiness, page 219:
 * Dewey disliked the word atheism because it often suggests a certain despairing attitude or a view of humanity as separated and alone in a hostile universe. However, he, like Feuerbach, actually tried to develop a kind of religious atheism. Zen Buddhism is also a kind of religious atheism, which is founded on the experience of emptiness, and the very combination of the terms religious and [...]
 * 2006,, The God Delusion, page 262:
 * I am not necessarily claiming that atheism increases morality, although humanism – the ethical system that often goes with atheism – probably does.
 * 2006,, The God Delusion, page 262:
 * I am not necessarily claiming that atheism increases morality, although humanism – the ethical system that often goes with atheism – probably does.