page_title: Phil Zuckerman
section_title: Published work
hierarchical_section_title: Phil Zuckerman / Career / Published work
caption_attribution_description: English: Atheist, agnostic, nonreligious, irreligious, religiousness populations by country or area for 2006 as percentage of total population.
context_page_description: Philip Joseph Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He specializes in the sociology of secularity. He is the author of several books, including Living the Secular Life, What It Means to be Moral and Society Without God for which he won ForeWord Magazine's silver book of the year award, and Faith No More.
context_section_description: Phil Zuckerman is the author of six books, including The Nonreligious, co-authored with Luke Galen and Frank Pasquale; Living the Secular Life; Faith No More; Society without God; Invitation to the Sociology of Religion; and Strife in the Sanctuary. His works have been translated into six languages, including Persian, Korean and Turkish.
  Phil Zuckerman's 2008 book Society without God notes that Denmark and Sweden, "probably the least religious countries in the world, and possibly in the history of the world", enjoy "among the lowest violent crime rates in the world [and] the lowest levels of corruption in the world". Zuckerman identifies that Scandinavians have "relatively high rates of petty crime and burglary", but "their overall rates of violent crime—such as murder, aggravated assault, and rape—are among the lowest on earth". In 2009, New York Times columnist Peter Steinfels commented that Society Without God provides evidence that an irreligious society can flourish. Society Without God won a “Book of the Year Silver Award” by Foreword Magazine in 2008 and was featured in The New York Times in an article by Peter Steinfel.
  Zuckerman's Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions was released in 2014 and reviewed in The New York Times by Susan Jacoby. Living the Secular Life was designated a "Best Book of 2014" by Publishers Weekly and was featured in a commentary by New York Times columnist David Brooks.
  The American Humanist Association has featured Zuckerman as a speaker on rising irreligion in the United States. Zuckerman is on the editorial board of Secularism and Nonreligion and is a convener of the Non-religion and Secularity Research Network conference.
caption: Phil Zuckerman's analysis finds differing levels of atheists and agnostics in countries around the world[16]
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