"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...
Topics: church attendance, Dow Jones index, economy, financial crisis, Pew, statistics, USA

{"title":"Losing Wealth but not Finding God","post_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/losing-wealth-but-not-finding-god.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"strappado","date":"2009-03-22 02:31:00","summary":"\"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..."}

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...
Topics: Alabama, americans, christianity, denmark, egypt, Estonia, Euroep, ex-communist, Iran, islam, norway, religiosity, statistics, Sweden, USA

{"title":"Most and least religious countries in the world","post_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/most-and-least-religious-countries-in.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"strappado","date":"2009-02-14 01:27:00","summary":"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..."}

"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...
Topics: atheism, denmark, religion, Scandinavia, secularism, Sweden, zuckerman

{"title":"Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment","post_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/society-without-god-what-least.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"strappado","date":"2008-08-25 08:20:00","summary":"\"Sociologist Zuckerman spent a year in Scandinavia seeking to understand how Denmark and Sweden became \u201cprobably the least religious countries in the world, and possibly in the history of the world.\u201d While many people, especially Christian..."}

"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...
Topics: buddhism, christianity, Great Britain, islam, judaism, muslim, religion, secularisation, statistics

{"title":"Christianity 'could die out within a century'","post_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/christianity-could-die-out-within.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"strappado","date":"2008-06-20 03:52:00","summary":"\"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..."}

"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: *...
Topics: dreams, islam, jihad, muslim, science, terrorism

{"title":"Research Suggests Militant Jihadists Are Inspired By Night Dreams","post_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/research-suggests-militant-jihadists.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/dailyatheist.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":"strappado","date":"2008-06-19 11:32:00","summary":"\"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: *..."}