New ARIS Study
The groundbreaking American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2008) shows that America is becoming increasingly secular. Among the study's findings: More Americans profess "no religion" than ever before; the number of "nones" increased in every state between 2000 and 2008; and roughly 12% of Americans are atheist or agnostic "based on their stated beliefs," according to Dr. Barry Kosmin and Dr. Ariela Keysar, the principle investigators behind the study.
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Secularism owed a great debt to the Enlightenment, and specifically to the Jewish thinker Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza's views were seen as radical and highly dangerous in his day... Spinoza's emphasis on the right to "think freely" eventually give rise to a movement known as Free Thought, which in turn became popular in Revolutionary-era America. In The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Secular Judaism, Brandeis historian Jonathan Sarna surveys the past and the present as he heralds the current secular Jewish renaissance.
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The Posen Foundation supports secular Jewish education through diverse projects primarily in North America and Israel. The Posen Project for the study of secular Jewish history and cultures is a grants program in 40 institutions in North America, Israel and Europe. The Center for Cultural Judaism administers the North American grants.
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