Reddit reviews Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

Read the 'show more' under the video (as directed in the title of the post)

SOURCES:

Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being

[Over 10% of American population are atheist]
(http://www.atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.php)

Less than 0.21% of prisoners are atheist

In response to a freedom of information act request, the Federal Bureau of Prisons says that on February 12, 2010 atheists accounted for just 0.08% of the prison population

Majority of Nobel Prize winners atheist:

• The Religiosity and Religious Affiliation of Nobel Prize Winners (Beit-Hallahmi, 1989)
  
  Majority of University professors atheist:
  
  
• Religion and Spirituality among University Scientists (Ecklund, 2007)
  
  Majority of scientists atheist:
  
  
• http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Scientists_and_atheism
  
  
• http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html
  
  
  Atheist Intellectuals:
  
  
• http://brainz.org/50-most-brilliant-atheists-all-time/
  
• http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Category:Atheist
  
  Atheist Celebrities
  
  Poverty rate lower among atheists:
  
  
• Society Without God (Zuckerman, 2008)
  
  
• http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=pzuckerman_26_5
  http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/Zuckerman_on_Atheism.pdf
  
  IQ higher among atheists:
  
  
• http://www.interfaith.org/2008/06/20/study-links-atheism-to-high-iq/
  
  
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-less-likely-to-believe-in-God.html
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#Studies_comparing_religious_belief_and_I.Q
  
  
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-4TFV93D-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=db2ee09bae0195cc1ecbd026da77245c
  
  
• http://www.humanreligions.info/intelligence.html
  
  
• http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402381
  
  Illiteracy rate lower among secular counties:
  
  United Nations Human Development Report (2004)
  
  Average Income higher among secular countries:
  
  United Nations Human Development Report (2004)
  
  Divorce rate lower among atheists:
  
  
• http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistfamiliesmarriage/a/AtheistsDivorce.htm
  
  
• http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm
  
  Teen pregnancy rate lower among atheists:
  
  Abortions lower among atheists:
  Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look (Paul, 2005)
  
  [STD infection lower among atheists:]
  (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece)
  
  Crime rate lower among atheists:
  
  
• Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look (Paul, 2005)
  
  Homicide rate lower among atheists:
  
  
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece
  
  
• Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look (Paul, 2005)
  
  Religiosity linked to racial prejudice:
  
  
• http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/study_links_religion_and_racism.html
  
  
• http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5025/53/
  
  Global Peace Index Rankings 2009
  
  • http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankings/2009/
  
  Percentage of atheists in the countries mentioned:
  
  A collection of resources for secular morality:
  
  
• http://www.reddit.com/r/atheistgems/comments/gsbte/better_without_god_a_collection_of_resources_for/
  
  
• http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=main&page=affirmations
  
  Peace is Non-theistic:
  

See the databases I referenced plus check into studies by Phil Zuckerman and Gregory Paul. Here are two sources to start you out;

• http://www.amazon.com/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797148/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225283258&sr=1-1
  
  
• http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html

I highly recommend this book for this topic. I'm only a few chapters into it, but it's a good read so far.

http://epiphenom.fieldofscience.com/

posts lots on papers about religion and a lot of them use statistics

There are a few posts on my blog (but they're not particularly deep);
here's an example:

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2011/08/lower-rates-of-religiosity-associated.html

(and that post links to some data sources that contain a bunch more variables that you might find useful)

Phil Zuckerman has written on some of this stuff too

http://www.amazon.com/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797148

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-zuckerman/imagine-no-religion_b_731548.html

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edit: here are some of my other posts relating to religious belief and some other variables:

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2011/07/science-readiness-and-religion.html

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-religious-more-generous.html

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-development-index-and-unbelief.html

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com/2009/06/pax-atheism.html

(if you check the links on those, you'll find a few more sources for information)