For some years, a range of empirical studies (e.g. Inglehart & Norris in "Sacred and Secular", 2004) confirmed a global correlation of religiosity to societal levels of want and income inequality and (especially) insecurity. As respective publications have been made available at the internet for free, a wider public is getting the message. E.g., a sound example of a well-done study has been published by Tom Rees in the Journal of Religion and Society.

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As I did my doctorate thesis about religion & brain sciences in 2003 to 2005, it was possible to get an overview over the main body of relevant literature, although I had to invest some hundred Euros on books not yet available in libraries. But since then, there has been a tremendous growth of scientific publications concerning the evolution of religiosity and religions, ranging from archaeology to political sciences, from (evolutionary and cultural) psychology to sociology right into the various branches of (socio-, micro-, behavioral-, neuro- etc.)biology, theology, philosophy and many, many more.

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