Losing My Religion ─ Unbelief in Australia

`Lucid and passionate, Losing My Religion is also spectacularly controversial. It warrants a disciplined, thoughtful response from readers at any point on the religious spectrum who are prepared to suspend their prejudices. Tom Frame offers some challenging speculations about a possible future where organised religion has retreated to an even more minor role in Australian life than it plays today. He has created a beautiful blend of history, theology and sociology.' Hugh MacKay

For much of its history Australia has been considered a `Christian' nation. But is it? With more than a quarter of the population without a declared religion and falling participation rates, Australia appears to be among the world's most godless nations. Science has challenged theological interpretations of the natural world, rationalists welcome the apparent decline of religious belief, and secularists advocate banning all government support for religious groups.

But have Australians lost their religious convictions? Has science proved that God does not exist? Has modern rationality rendered traditional religious belief largely untenable? And what would living in a godless society be like? In Losing My Religion, Tom Frame, one of Austrlia's best-known writers on religion and society, attempts to answer these crucially important questions.