Religion

Denmark has been characterized by US scholar Phil Zuckermann as the most thoroughly secularized or 'godless' country on earth. Despite the fact that 73% of the population are paying members to an established Lutheran-Protestant Church, called 'Folkekirken', i.e. 'Church of the People'. This lecture, with ample use of Danish newspaper cartoons, the Muhammad-cartoons included, will draw a picture of …

Researchers who are interested in understanding how religion affects Americans’ attitudes toward climate change have typically conceptualized religious influence as emerging from within organized religious traditions. On this view, if religion affects Catholics’ climate attitudes at all, it will be through a specifically Catholic source such as Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ or though the influence of …