ABSTRACT
Religion is undeniably a pervasive and powerful phenomenon in the traditional as well as the modern world, and it deserves all of the attention that it has received. Still, it is true that not all humans are equally religious, and many are not religious at all. In fact, according to Adherents.com, there are some 1.1 billion “nonreligious” or “secular” or “agnostic” or “atheist” people in the world. If so, they would constitute the third largest category after Christianity (2.1 billion) and Islam (1.3 billion). A category this large-larger than all but two of the “world religions”—certainly deserves attention as well.
