ANN ARBOR, Mich. (University of Michigan) ?Attendance at religious services and the subjective importance attached to religion are declining in virtually every advanced industrial society.But in the world as a whole, a larger number of people hold strong religious beliefs than ever before.

These are just some of the findings in ?Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide? by ISR research scientist Ronald Inglehart, who directs the World Values Surveys, and Harvard political scientist Pippa Norris.The book will be published in October by Cambridge University Press.