People Who Understand Science and Technology are happier than Religious People
The article had a number of confused statements such as the belief in the progress of science and technology, but the point is a rational pro-technology and science outlook results in significantly higher life satisfaction than religious belief.
OLGA STAVROVA (University of Chicago Press 196 pages (5 1/2 x 8 3/8) $49 ISBN: 9783593500560 Published November 2014.)
"Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people’s perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in Fitting In and Getting Happy that to a large extent happiness depends on a match between individuals’ attributes and the sociocultural characteristics of the environment in which they live. The first systematic, theory-driven investigation of cross-cultural variability in the causes and correlates of happiness, this book also provides a comprehensive overview of prior theoretical and empirical literature on happiness and life satisfaction, and suggests a number of avenues for further research in the fields of subjective well-being studies and cross-cultural comparative studies." -- http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/boo...
Belief in progress and religion were largely independent of one another rather than mutually exclusive. In addition, "men and educated individuals showed a stronger belief in scientific–technological progress than women and individuals with lower formal education."