Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
A few years ago, Phil Zuckerman—with his wife and two, soon three, children—picked up and moved to Denmark where he lived and travelled and, most of all, listened to Danes and Swedes talk about all manner of religious topics. Among other things, his book, based largely on the 149 formal interviews,...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 382-384 |
| Review of: | Society without God (New York, NY : New York University Press, 2008) (Baggett, Jerome P.)
Society without God (New York, NY [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press, 2008) (Baggett, Jerome P.) |
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| Summary: | A few years ago, Phil Zuckerman—with his wife and two, soon three, children—picked up and moved to Denmark where he lived and travelled and, most of all, listened to Danes and Swedes talk about all manner of religious topics. Among other things, his book, based largely on the 149 formal interviews, he conducted during his time abroad, sends sociologists accustomed to studying religion within single national (or more localized) contexts a gentle reminder: You really should get out more often. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq038 |