International Association of Non-Denominational and Atheists
| International Association of Non-Denominational and Atheists | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1972 |
| Seat | Berlin |
| main emphasis | Freedom of belief |
| people | René Hartmann |
| Members | approx. 1100 |
| Website | ibka.org |
The International Federation of Non-Denominational and Atheists eV (IBKA) is an association of non-denominational and so-called compulsory confessional people. The first chairman is René Hartmann .
Foundation and members
The IBKA emerged from the Berlin Association of the Non-Denominational , founded in 1972 . In 1976 the International Union of the Non-Denominational was founded in Berlin ; this was given today's name in 1982.
According to its own information, the association currently has approx. 1100 individual members and 12 corporate members. The advisory board includes Gerhard Czermak , Colin Goldner , Günter Kehrer , Mark Lindley , Hermann Josef Schmidt , Michael Schmidt-Salomon and Arzu Toker .
With the Turkish Ateizm Derneği , the first non-German association joined the IBKA in October 2015.
Goals and Positions
According to its statutes, the main goals of the IBKA are the enforcement of human rights - in particular the freedom of ideology - as individual rights, the consistent separation of state and church , the promotion of rational thinking and the education about the nature, function, structures and claims to power of religions .
The IBKA represents positions that are critical of religion , atheistic and agnostic , but does not see itself as a community of ideology , but as a political advocacy group without denominational and compulsory denominational people.
According to the IBKA, “compulsory confessionalised” applies “who, contrary to his / her convictions, belongs to a religious community only because he / she is forced to do so for economic or social reasons” (Section 5.2 of the IBKA Statutes). The IBKA therefore advises, among other things, on questions about leaving the church . Only those who do not belong to any religious community can take over a board position in the IBKA.
The IBKA is a member of the Atheist Alliance International and the Coordination Council of Secular Organizations . He publishes the quarterly publication " Materials and Information on Time " (MIZ), which was founded in 1972. The IBKA also operates the “Freigeisterhaus” forum, currently the largest German-speaking community for atheists and agnostics.
The German bus campaign as a German version of the Atheist Bus Campaign , an advertising campaign that was supposed to promote awareness of atheism, was supported by IBKA.
From 2000 to 2006, the IBKA awarded the Erwin Fischer Prize five times to “people and organizations [...] who excel in freedom of ideology, separation of state and church, promotion of rational thinking and education about nature, function, structures and Deserved rulership claims by religions. "
The IBKA is committed to ensuring that church events (e.g. the German Catholic Day ) do not receive any subsidies from the municipal fund.
IBKA award
Since 2008, the IBKA has been awarding the IBKA “Sapio” prize, usually every two years, to “people and organizations [...] who deal in an outstanding way
- Freedom of belief, self-determination and tolerance
- Separation of state and church
- Promote reasoned thinking
- Education about the nature, function, structures and claims to power of religions
- non-religious educational, social and cultural offers
- humanitarian aid by non-religious people
deserved. "
The previous winners are:
- 2008: Shabana Rehman and Sigi Zimmigart
- 2010: Oswalt Kolle for his services to sexual self-determination
- 2012: the seven-person organizational team for the bus campaign , including Carsten Frerk and Philipp Möller
- 2015 Greg Graffin
- 2017 Ateizm Derneği
Affiliated associations
As corporate members, the IBKA includes both overall organizations and individual regional groups of larger organizations. (Sorting alphabetically, as of July 2018):
- Ateizm Derneği (German: Atheism Association), Turkey
- Atheist Center (German: Atheist Center), India
- Aschaffenburger Freidenker e. V. , Germany
- Association for Freedom of the Mind , Germany: the regional divisions Augsburg, Bavaria, Erlangen, Kulmbach / Bayreuth, Munich, Neuburg / Ingolstadt, Regensburg
- Düsseldorfer Aufklärungsdienst e. V. , Germany
- Humanistischer Freidenker-Verband Ostwuerttemberg (HFV) (a regional group of Die Humanisten Baden-Württemberg ), Germany
- Freethinkers Ulm / Neu-Ulm eV , Germany
- Young Democrats / Young Left : Landesverband Berlin, Germany
- Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (German: Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science), United States
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ibka.org/haben/rene-hartmann
- ↑ IBKA Activity Report 2014. International Association of Non-Denominational People and Atheists, accessed on September 17, 2015 .
- ↑ IBKA homepage: Advisory Board
- ↑ IBKA with a new board. (Report) General Assembly 2015. In: Humanistic Press Service. Volker Panzer, October 20, 2015, accessed October 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Claudia Wangerin: Atheist bus campaign undesirable. Berlin transport companies no longer want to allow ideological advertising. Junge Welt , March 17, 2009, accessed January 14, 2017 .
- ↑ https://www.taz.de/Kirchentag-in-Muenster/!156975/
- ↑ Homepage of the IBKA Prize
- ↑ ibka.org: Oswalt Kolle receives IBKA Prize "Sapio" ( Memento from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The bus campaign team receives the IBKA "Sapio 2012" award . Notification on the IBKA website, accessed on January 14, 2017.
- ^ Atheist "Sapio" award goes to Bad Religion singer Greg Graffin .
- ↑ “Ateizm Derneği” receives IBKA prize “Sapio 2017”. International Association of Non-Denominational and Atheists, accessed June 8, 2017 .
- ↑ IBKA homepage: corporate members , accessed on July 8, 2018.