Didrik Schjerven Søderlind (born March 13, 1971) is a Norwegian

secular humanist Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system or life stance that embraces human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality an ...

and

skeptic Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the pe ...

who works as a journalist and author. He works as an advisor for the

Norwegian Humanist Association The Norwegian Humanist Association ( no, Human-Etisk Forbund; HEF) 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 b ...

and has previously been a journalist for forskning.no with

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

, and

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...

as primary areas of interest. He has published monographies of his own as well as contributed to anthologies, especially about

lifestance A person's life stance, or lifestance, is their relation with what they accept as being of ultimate importance. It involves the presuppositions and theories upon which such a stance could be made, a belief system, and a commitment to potentials wo ...

and

skepticism Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the pe ...

. In 2015, Søderlind together with the priest Stian Kilde Aarebrot published the book ''Presten og ateisten'' (The Priest and the Atheist) in which the two through correspondence discuss faith and doubt through the perspectives of their different lifestances.

Published literature

* '' Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground'', 2003 (with Michael Moynihan) * ''Kristen-Norge. En oppdagelsesreise'', 2010 * ''Presten og ateisten'', 2015 (with Stian Kilde Aarebrot)

References

External links

Author profile at Humanist forlag
{{DEFAULTSORT:Søderlind, Didrik 1971 births Living people Norwegian humanists Norwegian atheists Norwegian writers Norwegian skeptics