Society without God: what the least religious nations can tell us about contentment
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Society without God 2 Jens, Anne, and Christian 3 Fear of Death and the Meaning of Life4 Lene, Sonny, and Gitte 5 Being Secular 6 Why? 7 Dorthe, Laura, and Johanne 8 Cultural Religion 9 Back to the USA Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Secular institutions have evolved to perform functionally equivalent roles to religion.
“We might therefore expect that secular institutions have evolved to perform functionally equivalent roles to religion [54], [55].”
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- Authors
- Zuckerman, P.
- Corresponding author
- Phil Zuckerman
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 2009-10-01
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 02
- Pages
- 47-1167-47-1167
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1514861306
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 0
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- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Choice Reviews Online (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- secularization, non-belief, contentment, meaning of life, fear of death, religion and society
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