Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!

My name is Sofia Nikitaki, I originally come from Greece, and I am a religious studies scholar doing my PhD at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. At this moment I am conducting a cross-cultural qualitative research study, which concerns the attitudes and ideas of nonreligious individuals in Belgium, Greece, and Norway. My research is supervised by Prof. Dr. Annemie Dillen, and funded by the F.W.O. (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen/Research Foundation – Flanders).

My study concerns specifically the attitudes, opinions and ideas that nonreligious/nonbelieving individuals from the Millennial generation (born ≈ 1981-1998) hold about their own outlooks, as well as on the various opinions and ideas that they might carry about ‘god’ and/or ‘higher power’-related concepts. This blog will be utilized as one of my exploration tools, along with in-depth interviews of nonbelieving millennials from the aforementioned countries. Therefore, I am happy to invite any nonreligious individual out there (even those outside my countries/generation of interest) to make a profile and comment on the issues that will be posted here. Your feedback is more than valuable for my research, and more than appreciated!

As you will notice on the registration process, this blog is anonymous and in line with the GDPR regulations. Therefore, you cannot select your own username and upload a profile picture. Furthermore, please refrain from posting sensitive and/or very distinctive personal information about you on your comments (i.e.: full name, personal address, phone number, email, personal website, etc.).

I will act as the moderator of the blog, making sure that there is no anonymity breach. Therefore, any comment you make on this blog will get into a “approval pending” status, and will appear as a reply on the blog after being approved. If one of your comments contains personal data about you, I might approve your comment, but hide your personal data so they are available only to me. Your anonymity will not be breached under any circumstances.

Last, but not least, please reply to the posts and comments in English. This is to maintain the interaction between the researcher and the participants, as well as the interaction of the participants with each-other, as open and accessible to everyone as possible.

If you have any comments or questions relating to the utility of this blog, or my research in general, feel free to contact me using this contact form. Thank you again for visiting my page and hoping to hear from you in the comments! 🙂