Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
22. What Are the Most Atheistic Societies?
Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
Isabella Kasselstrand [+]
University of Aberdeen
Isabella Kasselstrand is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. Using quantitative and mixed methods, her research examines secularization and nonreligion in northern Europe and the United States.
Description
This chapter uses data from the World Values Survey, the European Values Study, and the International Social Survey Program to identify the most atheistic societies in the world. This is accomplished by examining levels of (1) self-defined atheism and (2) nonbelief in God. The chapter also explains how these measures differ at the cross-national scale.