Syntheism

Syntheism is a new religious movement originating from Alain de Botton's 2011 TED Talk titled "Atheism 2.0". It focuses on how atheists can achieve the same feelings of community and awe that religious believers experience.

Origination
“Syntheism” comes from Greek syntheos, meaning humanity creates God – as opposed to monotheism's view that God created humanity. Its inspiration is the writings of the French surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille in the 1950s.

Communities and notable works
Syntheism has a Facebook community with 1,332 members, as of October 2014. Community events have been held in Sweden.

Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist published Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age in October 2014. Spiritual naturalism is considered by Bard to be an American version of Syntheism.

Beliefs
Syntheism is “the art of nonknowledge.” Syntheists believe that there can be no core set of beliefs. Participatory festivals such as Burning Man are examples of Syntheism.

Bard further elaborates:

"...the idea is that we human beings are here, we are an emergent reality of the universe itself — an emergent expression of the universe itself … all seven billion of us. That, in itself… If that isn’t spiritual, I don’t know what is. And Syntheism, that means we apply the divine on this. To me, the name “God” is an amazing name for all the dreams of humanity projected into one point. What would you name that? You would name it God. And that is what we need to [do, to] retake the “God” word but just give God proper qualities that we can actually believe in. In that case, Syntheism is the God that we choose to believe in and can believe in. Whatever that means."

Criticisms
Lack of central leadership and core beliefs lead some to believe Syntheism will fail. It has also been criticized for its lack of mystery.