What if leaving religion is really an act of resistance and identity reclamation?
Atheism is on the rise among the Māori in New Zealand, but we know little about Māori nonreligion and the processes contributing to Māori deconversion from Christianity.
In this lecture, Dr. Rahmani will describe the contours of Māori atheism and its intersections with colonisation, cultural revitalisation, and protest movements. She will discuss her upcoming co-authored book, which draws on in-depth interviews and explores how activist resistance to colonialism plays a decisive role in Māori atheists’ accounts of their identity and non-belief.
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Dr. Masoumeh Sara Rahman
Dr. Masoumeh Sara Rahmani is a senior lecturer in the Study of Religion at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on atheism, nonreligion, and (de)conversion, explored in relation to Buddhist meditation movements and, more recently, within the Māori cultural context. Sara’s recent monograph, Drifting Through Samsara, examined patterns of conversion and deconversion from Goenka’s Vipassana movement in Aotearoa. She is currently co-authoring her second book, Māori Atheism as a Decolonising Project, with Prof. Peter Adds and Dr. Geoff Troughton.
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