An updated edition showcasing the social health of the least religious nations in the worldReligious conservatives around the world often claim that a society without a strong foundation of faith would necessarily be an immoral one bereft of ethics values and meaning. Indeed the Christian Right in the United States has argued that a society without God would be hell on earth.In Society without God Second Edition sociologist Phil Zuckerman challenges these claims. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with more than 150 citizens of Denmark and Sweden among the least religious countries in the world he shows that far from being inhumane crimeinfested and dysfunctional highly secular societies are healthier safer greener less violent and more democratic and egalitarian than highly religious ones.Society without God provides a rich portrait of life in a secular society exploring how a culture without faith copes with death grapples with the meaning of life and remains content through everyday ups and downs.