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• Losing Wealth but not Finding God

  Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 04:31 in Economy, usa, statistics, church attendance, pew, financial crisis, dow jones index

  "Contrary to recent media reports suggesting that the country's economic troubles have led to higher levels of church attendance, a Pew Forum analysis of polls by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that while the Dow Jones I...

• Most and least religious countries in the world

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 03:27 in sweden, christianity, Alabama, Islam, usa, statistics, estonia, egypt, iran, norway, denmark, americans

  Here's an interesting Gallup survey listing up which countries are most and least religious, and comparison to US states. Always nice to keep around when there are discussions about how important religion is for your well-being. (The poll data is bas...

• Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 10:20 in sweden, atheism, scandinavia, Secularism, denmark, zuckerman

  "Sociologist Zuckerman spent a year in Scandinavia seeking to understand how Denmark and Sweden became “probably the least religious countries in the world, and possibly in the history of the world.” While many people, especially Christian conser...

• Christianity 'could die out within a century'

  Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 05:52 in muslim, Buddhism, Islam, statistics, judaism, great britain, secularisation

  "Research by the Orthodox Jewish organisation Aish found that just over a third of people thought religions like Christianity and Judaism would still be practiced in Britain in 100 years' time.Although four in 10 people said they would choose to be a...

• Research Suggests Militant Jihadists Are Inspired By Night Dreams

  Posted on Thursday June 19th, 2008 at 13:32 in dreams, muslim, Islam, terrorism, jihad

  "This is the conclusion of a study of the reported dreams of many of the best-known al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders carried out by Dr Iain Edgar a social anthropologist at Durham University.Edgar identified four key themes from his research: * Milita...

• Øystein Elgarøy - the Christian defender who became an Atheist

  Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 16:15 in atheism, interview, conversion, norway, richard dawkins, christopher hitchens, mcgrath, liberal theology, Øystein elgarøy

  I came across an interesting deconversion story in the Norwegian Fri Tanke magazine( for Norwegian humanists). I briefly translated a short quote from it and posted it at the Richard Dawkins-forum, and then I was asked to do a full translation for th...

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