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Daniel Dacombe interviews sociologists Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme and Joel Thiessen about religion and atheism in Canada and the US.

Episode 32 - Humanist Canada's Daniel Dacombe sits down with sociologists Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme and Joel Thiessen to discuss religion, atheism, refusal, and acceptance in today's society. They bridge the gap between Canada and the US by revealing how both countries face the same religious dilemmas, and how both religious and secular scholars can work together to advance solutions to these dilemmas..

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Host: Daniel Dacombe

Guests: Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, Joel Thiessen

Topics covered

• religion
• atheism
• society
• Canada
• US
• secularism
• scholarship

Keywords

• religion
• atheism
• Canada
• US
• sociology
• secularism
• acceptance
• refusal

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Organizations: Humanist Canada

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