Philip Joseph Zuckerman was born on June 26,1969 and is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
20 Facts About Phil Zuckerman
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Phil Zuckerman 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.
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Phil Zuckerman transferred to the University of Oregon in Eugene, and there earned a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy, all in sociology.
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Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
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Phil Zuckerman is an affiliated adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University.
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Phil Zuckerman was a guest professor at Aarhus University in Denmark in 2006 and 2010.
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Phil Zuckerman serves as the special series editor of the Secular Studies book series published by NYU Press.
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Phil Zuckerman is the Executive Director of Humanist Global Charity, formerly known as Brighter Brains Institute, which works in 51 nations to fund secular education, humanist students, women's collectives, orphans, helplines, and offers internships in Africa and India Development.
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Phil Zuckerman is on the editorial board of Secularism and Nonreligion and is a convener of the Non-religion and Secularity Research Network Conference.
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Phil Zuckerman is on the editorial board for the journal Secular Studies.
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Phil Zuckerman is the author of seven 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; What it Means to be Moral; and Strife in the Sanctuary.
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Phil Zuckerman's works have been translated into six languages, including Persian, Korean and Turkish.
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Phil 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.
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Phil Zuckerman has said that 20 percent of the United States are irreligious and 30 percent of citizens under 30 are.
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Phil Zuckerman has commented that religion is often conflated with patriotism in the United States.
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Phil Zuckerman has stated that while "he applauds the passion and purpose" of American Atheists, they are a minority, as the majority of atheists in America "are not angry, do not hate religion and do not need a forum to vent".
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Phil Zuckerman has found that murder rates in Scandinavian countries lowered after abolishing the death penalty, and has opposed the use in the United States.
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Phil Zuckerman has found that the religiously unaffiliated tend to be more inclined to progressive politics, and the decline in Protestant Christianity in America is a blow to conservative causes.
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Phil Zuckerman has commented on the rise of "Jews of no religion", people who identify as being wholly or partially Jewish while having no religion.
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Phil Zuckerman commented that growing atheist movements in the United States were a response to the impact of the Christian right.