Hm. And now I feel better about saying, yes, you should explicitly state you're talking about Christianity if that's what you mean by religion. I'm curious to see how, say, India would show up in something like this. (I pull out an example from the current segment in my religion class.) Also, how about some discussion of change over time?

An interesting aside -- "Japan, Scandinavia, and France are the most secular nations in the west" -- quoted verbatim from the article. Since when is Japan in the west, never mind the West?

There's a rather ethnocentric primacy placed on belief in science.

I'm not saying that I don't think that evangelical Christian ideas don't contribute to, say, teen pregnancy rates and abortion rates and STD rates in the US -- I'm sure they do. But there's a level of generalization going on here that I'm not sure is valid.

(Full disclosure: I'm an anthropology student, and I tend to think that statistics are nonsense...)