The current issue of Approaching Religion, which opens the second volume of this e-journal, consists of papers, reviews and reflections originating from a roundtable seminar held at the Donner Institute in January 2012. Under the topic ‘The New Visibility of Atheism in Europe’, some twenty scholars engaged in research on contemporary religiosity and atheism gathered for a three-day seminar debating topical questions and themes related to the academic study of atheism within the several fields of research.