Holy Saturday being Social Climate's annual day off, my Holy Week column is always the Saturday after. Last year's 'The religiosity of Filipinos' (4/23/22) looked into 'hard' versus 'soft' belief in God, and into beliefs in the afterlife, citing the religion surveys of the International Social Survey Program (issp.org), where Social Weather Stations (SWS) has been a member since 1990. Each ISSP member finances its own survey. This year, let's look at the World Values Survey (WVS), the prime data source for the 2021 book 'Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing It, and What Comes Next?' by Ronald F.

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