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.
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."
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...