Secularized Sweden

The newspaper Dagen writes that a new survey was published by Kairos Future, showing clearly what we already new: Sweden is one of the most secularized places in the world. A survey was done among 22500 people (16-50 yrs) from 17 countries. In the US, 75% believes in God. In Europe only 38%, and within Europe Sweden is even much lower. Even fewer see religion as important for their identity. In all kinds of questions, religion ends up very low on the list, says one of Kairos people.
The survey shows also, that young people may be concerned about e.g. environmental issues more than about money, but their behaviour is more centred on materialistic issues than on values.
See http://www.dagen.se/dagen/Article.aspx?ID=154449 (swedish) and http://www.kairosfuture.com/en/international/projects/globalyouth