Phil Zuckerman
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Phil Zuckerman at a 2010 conference in Costa Mesa, California
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| Born | Philip Joseph Zuckerman June 26, 1969 Los Angeles, California |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | Pitzer College |
| Alma mater | University of Oregon PhD, 1998 |
| Known for | Secularization |
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Philip "Phil" Zuckerman (born June 26, 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is a professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He specializes in the sociology of secularity. He is the author of several books, including Society Without God (2008) for which he won ForeWord Magazine's silver book of the year award, and Faith No More (2011).
Zuckerman grew up in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California and studied at Santa Monica College. He transferred to the University of Oregon in Eugene, and there earned a Bachelor of Arts (1992), Master of Arts (1995), and Doctor of Philosophy (1998), all in sociology.
Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is also an affiliated adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. He was a guest professor at Aarhus University in Denmark in 2006 and 2010. He serves as the special series editor of the Secular Studies book series published by NYU Press. He is on the Board of Directors of Brighter Brains, which builds and supports orphanages, schools, and clinics in Uganda.
His research interests are secularity, atheism, apostasy, morality, and Scandinavian culture.
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.
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