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Could anyone live without God? The pragmatic answer is, ‘Yes’. If we compare the Australian census figures for 2006 and 2016, we find that in 2006, 19% filled in the question ‘what religion’, ‘none’: in 2016, 30% recorded, ‘no religion’.
Chapter 4 was originally published as Hutchings, P. Sophia (2021) 60: 531–549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00850-8
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Hutchings, P. (2022). Has God Been and Gone?. In: Chakraborty, S., Mukhopadhyay, A. (eds) Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 37. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7249-2_4
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