Society Without God, by Phil Zuckerman

[essentialsaltes]

Society Without God presents the results of Zuckerman's yearlong stay in Denmark, interviewing Danes (and a few Swedes, and a couple miscellaneous) about their religious beliefs and the religious culture of Scandinavia. Although Zuckerman is a trained sociologist, he's also a secular person himself, and admits here and there that he has an axe to

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[essentialsaltes]

As an aside, I can't pass up this quote, which provides some insight into the Nordic art community (and maybe the Nordic LARP community?):
"I had just painted this big painting and everybody said “Wow"-I was good at painting, but they thought that my way-what I painted in this religion dimension was absolutely stupid. But she came and I just remember, she looked at that picture and I had been painting all night and I hadn’t had any sleep, and then she said, “When you go to the bathroom, do you ever really, really shit, you know, and get red in your face and just-I want to hear you tell me about being at the bathroom. I want to be able to imagine you just shitting this big shit in the bathroom."

[ladyeuthanasia]

Really fascinating. Thanks for sharing this.

[aaronjv]

The more I discover about Scandinavian countries, the more I communicate with their people, the more I realize that I'm not a true American. I may not even be American--my birthplace in Mountain View, California, notwithstanding.