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Christian Lomsdalen (born 14 May 1985) is the president of the Norwegian Humanist Association, elected in 2021.
He earned a master's degree in peace and conflict transformation at the University of Tromsø in 2012 and a master's degree in the history of religion at the University of Bergen in 2019. He is a research fellow at same university. [1] He started the podcast Lektor Lomsdalens innfall in 2016. [2]
In 2021 he was elected president of the Norwegian Humanist Association, after having served as its vice president from 2019 to 2021. [3] [4] [5]
Religious humanism or ethical humanism is an integration of nontheistic humanist philosophy with congregational rites and community activity that center on human needs, interests, and abilities. Religious humanists set themselves apart from secular humanists by characterizing the nontheistic humanist life stance as a non-supernatural "religion" and structuring their organization around a congregational model.
The Norwegian Humanist Association is one of the largest secular humanist associations in the world, with over 130,000 members. Those members constitute 2.3% of the national population of 5.47 million, making HEF by far the largest such association in the world in proportion to population. The association publishes the magazine Fri tanke.
Hef or HEF may refer to:
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Norway is a comparatively secular nation which no longer has a state religion, though 68.7% of the 5.4 million population belong to the Church of Norway.
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