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Guests: Dr. Barry Kosmin, ARIS Principal Investigator & Author Susan Jacoby
Guests: Dr. Barry Kosmin, ARIS Principal Investigator & Author Susan Jacoby
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Mar 14, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Topics: U.S.'s Growing Secularism, & What's Wrong with Pres. Obama's Faith-Based Plans?Barry A. Kosmin, a principal researcher of the definitive American Religious Identification Survey, will talk about the newest ARIS results released this week showing that up to 1 in 5 adult Americans is nonreligious, and the continuing decline of religiosity in America. Author, journalist and freethinker Susan Jacoby will talk about her op-ed piece in The New York Times, "Keeping the Faith, Ignoring the History," detailing what's wrong with faith-based funding and offices in the federal government.
Released:
Mar 14, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
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