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Desecularization and social conformity (view source)
Revision as of 15:56, May 19, 2017
, 15:56, May 19, 2017→Atheism, news media and desecularization
With declining newspaper profits of newspapers and an increase in religiosity in many cultures, the news media will have a smaller role in preventing desecularization.
With declining newspaper profits of newspapers and an increase in religiosity in many cultures, the news media will have a smaller role in preventing desecularization.
== Social media and ostracism of atheists ==
''Psychology Today'' reports about social media:
{{Cquote|...social media has caused us to shift away from expressing our self-identities and toward constructing facades based on the answers to these questions, "How will others look at me?" and "How can I ensure that others view me positively?" The goal for many now in their use of social media becomes how they can curry acceptance, popularity, status, and, by extension, self-esteem through their profiles and postings. Self-awareness and self-expression give way to impression management and self-promotion.<ref>[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201107/technology-is-technology-stealing-our-self-identities Technology: Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities?], Psychology Today, 2011</ref>}}
Buzzfeed reported about social media in atheist in Bengladesh:
{{Cquote|In 2013, after the murder of atheist blogger Rajib Haidar Shovon [one of several such murders in Bangladesh in recent years], I, along with other activists, bloggers, and campaigners, was targeted by the Islamists. They declared us atheists and wanted us dead. Old friends unfriended and blocked me on Facebook, very close relatives stopped contacting me, and some even threatened me to make me stop.<ref>[https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/how-it-feels-to-be-an-atheist-in-a-highly-religious-society?utm_term=.jwpaGaREp#.yd56165d7 How It Feels To Be An Atheist In A Highly Religious Society], Buzzfeed</ref>}}
== Past secularization in geographic regions through communism ==
== Past secularization in geographic regions through communism ==