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Across the 36 countries surveyed, people’s views on the importance of religion to national identity vary widely. Large shares in middle-income countries say being a member of the historically ...

The Enlightenment strain of Anti-Semitism continued throughout socialism, in Marx himself no less, and except for temporary ...

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