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49 - United States

from Part VII - Lived Atheism in the Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries: Case-Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2021

Michael Ruse
By
Eric Chalfant
Edited by
Stephen Bullivant
Michael Ruse
Affiliation:
Florida State University
Stephen Bullivant
Affiliation:
St Mary's University, Twickenham, London
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Summary

“The Pacific Northwest may be called God’s country,” reported the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1991, “but no region in the nation is less religious. A national study released this week found that Oregon and Washington lead the nation with the highest proportion of non-believers” (Maier 1991, A1). More recently, in 2017, the Canadian newspaper the National Post reported that, based on the results of an Angus Reid survey, British Columbia (BC) is “in many respects the most godless part of Canada” (Hamilton 2017). References to the uniquely “godless” character of the Pacific Northwest are neither new nor isolated.

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The Cambridge History of Atheism , pp. 918 - 931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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