Atheism/agnosticism as an ethnic religion or Ethnoreligious group

Buddism is not atheistic; theres plenty of supernaturalism in the beliefs even if there's not a personified deity in the strictist sense.

Actually, IIRC, the Buddha did say that deities do exist, they're just not necessarily wiser or more moral than us. It's the idea of a creator deity that Buddhists reject.
 
I think your best bet would be to have a people afopt a very strong transtheism, i.e. a more nationalist Taoism that doesnt diverge too far from the works of Lao Tzu
If atheism isn't a religion, then it's certainly a philosophy. Anyone who doesn't believe in religion probably has reasons for it, and to form a proper ethnoreligious group they'd need a shared reason/philosophy behind it. In the past few centuries in the Western world, it would be based on rationalism and likely adherence to ideas found in Revolutionary France, the USSR, and Mexico under Plutarco Elías Calles. Odds are to form a true ethnoreligious group, the state which produced them (i.e. the USSR, Revolutionary France, etc.) needs to have fallen, but they still identify with that state rather than its successors.
Atheism isn't a philosophy, but a philosophical position. I.e. platonism the philosphy includes positions of theism, transcendentalism and rationalism, but those three positions are not philosophies in and of themselves.
 
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