Tag Archives: traditional secular values

Fundamentalist values, culture and religion

Posted on October 18, 2020 by colinmathers

In an earlier post, I summarized trends in religiosity (practicing, non-practicing, non-religious and atheist) for countries in the World Values Survey (WVS) and European Values Study (EVS) from 1980 to 2020 [1-4]. In this post, I take a closer look … Continue reading →

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Global trends in religiosity and atheism 1980 to 2020

Posted on September 30, 2020 by colinmathers

Ronald Inglehart has recently published an article in Foreign Affairs called “Giving up on God: the global decline of religion” in which he uses data from the most recent wave of the World Health Surveys (WVS) to claim that between … Continue reading →

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Trends in cultural values across 105 countries: 1980 to 2020

Posted on August 9, 2020 by colinmathers

In a previous post, I examined variations in cultural values across 105 countries in year 2019 using data from all 7 waves of the World Values Survey (WVS)and all 5 waves of the European Values Survey (EVS) [1-4]. I developed … Continue reading →

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Variations in cultural values across 105 countries in 2019

Posted on August 3, 2020 by colinmathers

Working for the World Health Organization over the last 20 years and dealing with national health authorities, I’ve been quite fascinated by the variations across cultures and countries in values and beliefs, and the huge influence they have on willingness … Continue reading →

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