Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment
The Scandinavian societies have been a byword for secularism as much as for social democracy for at least fifty years. When in 1960 President Eisenhower made a public reference to “a fairly friendly European country” where suicides, drunkenness, and lack of ambition seemed to have been the product o...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 699-700 |
| Review of: | Society without God (New York, NY : New York University Press, 2008) (Madeley, John T. S.)
Society without God (New York, NY [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press, 2008) (Madeley, John T. S.) |
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| Summary: | The Scandinavian societies have been a byword for secularism as much as for social democracy for at least fifty years. When in 1960 President Eisenhower made a public reference to “a fairly friendly European country” where suicides, drunkenness, and lack of ambition seemed to have been the product of socialistic policies, he caused something of a diplomatic incident with Sweden. He might just as well have added secularism, sexual license, and neutralism to the charge sheet as Swedish welfarism was at the time just as much associated by religious conservatives with these deviations from virtue. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq016 |