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An Argument for Unbelief: a Discussion About Terminology Conrad, NG. 2018. An Argument for Unbelief: A Discussion about Terminology. Secularism and Nonreligion, 7: 11, pp. 1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/snr.110 RESEARCH ARTICLE An Argument for Unbelief: A Discussion about Terminology Nickolas Garth Conrad The rupture with traditional religion and the loss of belief in God as a widespread religious position represents a sea change in Western thought. However, there were very few self-declared atheists, secularists, and humanists in Western history prior to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and even during the Modern period, there are not many. This is especially true in my own research of nineteenth and early twentieth-century France. Those who took the name of atheist such as Baron d’Holbach or Jacques-André Naigeon were exceptional militants. The quest to find other such atheists buried in the pages and hidden messages of key books is a limited endeavor. Atheism as a concept does not originate from any single creed or doctrine and is itself open to permutation. Looking for a clear and distinct form of atheism is looking for a conceptual phenomenon constructed by the researcher. The language and words we use control and direct how we understand the past. The term “atheist” imposes a rigidity to a fluid and shifting phenomenon. Instead, we should open up our research to the emergence of modern “unbelief,” as defined by Gordon Stein and Tom Flynn in The Encyclopedia of Unbelief. This paper will argue for “unbelief” as the proper analytical category as a field of future research that will allow for a much larger, more inclusive, variegated set of parameters to understand the rupture with traditional forms of religion or spiritual practices. The important change in intellectual history was not the emergence of a particular atheism that promoted scientism and which held to its positions dogmatically but the acute doubt of past intellectual and religious traditions that led to a spectrum of new ideologies and religious positions. An Argument for Unbelief An umbrella term for the field is not only useful but is The emergence of widespread unbelief in Europe during essential because the current terms are often inaccurate the modern period is a watershed event in the history of in describing the nuance of changing religious beliefs and human consciousness. For the first time, significant num- positions. Atheism sets up a false dichotomy that excludes bers of people in the cultural capitals of Western civiliza- the middle: one is a believer or not a believer. It assumes tion turned away from religion and spirituality. However, everything fits into two categories. Unbelief exists on a despite the historical importance of this cultural shift, spectrum that includes the complication of the supernat- scholars have for a long-time neglected to treat it in their ural or intangible beliefs in things like progress, or unveri- work, and it is only recently that a host of books, articles, fiable phenomena (spirituality, aliens, ghosts, spirits, and blog posts have been published on the subject. In ancestors, etc). Second, and central to the use of historical these new studies, a small, but significant issue has come categories, if one looked only for those who called them- up: a lack of consensus on the proper term for what has selves “atheists,” the study would indubitably leave out a been called atheism, secularism, or irreligion, among oth- vast number of people who closely fit the description of ers. In the confusion of terminology, it is my contention atheist but never took the name, and just as importantly, that the decline of traditional religion merits a term that those who were clearly not atheists but were far from tra- is both exhaustive but adequately specific. This article is a ditional religion. The study of atheism and the process of proposal to call the subject of this research unbelief versus the loss of faith must look at those who rejected estab- atheism, the secular, or irreligion. “Unbelief” provides the lished religion and entered into irreligion. Atheism as a most open conceptual flexibility without mischaracteriz- cultural phenomenon lives and breathes in the activity of ing the person or group into a predefined religious posi- irreligion. Irreligion being that which challenges, refutes, tion. This is not an article that wishes to provide nuance to and doubts religion and the religious. An atheist is a result all forms of unbelief; rather I hope to suggest a more open of irreligion and can be understood to fit under a growing category that captures the richness of the field. culture of unbelief. I propose the term “unbelief” particularly in opposi- tion to how the Oxford Handbook of Atheism (2013) and University of California, Santa Cruz, US the Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2007) editions use [email protected] “atheism” in their titles as the umbrella term for the study Art. 11, page 2 of 8 Conrad: An Argument for Unbelief of unbelief and the rejection of God (Bullivant and Ruse Likewise, Fitzgerald holds that the functional understand- 2013; Martin 2007). While these two works are invalu- ing of “religion” renders the concept indistinguishable from able as a collection of excellent research and discussion, culture. Thus, the concept of religion has little to no analyti- “atheism,” as a term to cover all that is asked of it, is too cal or descriptive value (Fitzgerald 1997; Fitzgerald 2007). unclear and narrow, but also too political and too partisan. In Fitzgerald’s point of view, the inseparable nature of Scholarship needs a category that has the virtue of being the secular and religious leads some scholars to explore more inclusive that can comprise the diversity encoun- functional ideas of religion that equate ideology with reli- tered in the history of the ideas and practices that chal- gion since both can provide an ultimate meaning to life lenged religion and spirituality. (2000). Functional definitions of religion have their intel- I propose the definition given by Gordon Stein and Tom lectual origin in Emile Durkheim and Paul Tillich’s work. Flynn found in the editions of Encyclopedia of Unbelief Durkheim defined religion as “a unified system of beliefs (1985) and The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (2007). In and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things these works, “unbelief” is defined in a more open and inclu- set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite sive way as the position of “not holding orthodox beliefs or into one single moral community called a Church, all traditional opinions–on religious matters” (Stein 1985, xv; those who adhere to them” (2008, 47). Tillich defined reli- Flynn 2007). Moreover, the term “unbelief” is heterodox gion as “the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, in relation to traditional or dominant forms of religious a concern which qualifies all other concerns as prelimi- expression or practices and is understood to be a term nary and which itself contains the answer to the question inside a historical context. It is a whole or partial break of the meaning of life” (1963, 3) Both definitions provide with traditional religion that includes blasphemy, heresy, a functional understanding of religion. Durkheim stated the rejection of belief, atheism, agnosticism, humanism, that religion designated sacred symbols and helped unify and rationalism (Stein 1985). The term has its merits and hold together the community. For example, the tri- especially as a historical term that helps make the con- color flag is the sacred symbol of French revolutionaries nections to the criticism, decline, or attenuation of belief and serves to unify the community symbolically; in addi- in supernatural agents, religious ideas, and religious prac- tion, the French community is reinforced through mass tices. Unbelief thus conceived can include various forms of public republican rituals such as parades, inaugurations, spirituality and heresies which represent the incremental the dedication of deceased secular heroes to the Pantheon steps that took people further and further from normative in Paris, etc. When French republicanism is functionally belief in religion, spiritual practices, and the existence of compared to the processions, dedications, and sainthood God. The openness and inclusion of “unbelief” is its virtue. rituals of Catholicism, republicanism and Catholicism To encapsulate all the above, Stein’s definition should appear very similar. Additionally, Fitzgerald argues that be restated: unbelief is the position of not holding ortho- such notions as “religious experience” lose their analytical dox beliefs or traditional opinions—on religious mat- value under investigation (2000). For instance, meditative ters—and the rejection of authority and norms concerning practices such as fly-fishing or morning walks can be given spiritual practices. the connotation of a religious experience. This definition accepts a substantive concept of religion Taking these problems in consideration, Kevin Schilbrack that it is analytically useful in the study of history. In con- (2012) argues that the term “religion” is not irredeemable. trast to the social constructionist criticism of “religion” in First, the solution is to limit or avoid the use of functional recent years, the term “unbelief” maintains “religion” to theories of religion. One should instead use substantive be an analytical, useful historical category that is a tangi- definitions. Second, Schilbrack contends that while it is per- ble phenomenon distinguishable
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