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Levi Fragell
making it, as a proportion of national population, the
largest such organisation in the world. He joined the
board of the IHEU in the 1980s, becoming its co-president
in 1987 and sole president between 1998 and 2003. He lat-
er became Chair of the IHEU’s Committee on Growth and
Development, and has travelled widely to promote hu-
manism, oppose racism and religious intolerance. In 2008
he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the
IHEU.[2]
References
[1] IHEU: Interview with Levi Fragell, 2009
[2] ^ IHEU: Lifetime Achievement Award to a Tireless
Levi Fragell, former Secretary General of the Norwegian Hu-
Humanist, 18 April 2008
manist Association and former president of the International
Humanist and Ethical Union, during a break at the World Hu-
manist Congress 2011 in Oslo. External links
• World Atheist Conference 2011: Inaugural address by
Levi Fragell (born 30 March 1939) is a Norwegian hu-
Fragell
manist. He has been chairman and secretary of the Nor-
• Article by Fragell, The Torches of the Future , New
wegian Humanist Association, and was President of the
Humanist, 2002
International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) be-
• Text of speech, The Rise of Charismatic Christianity,
tween 1987-1990 (as one member of a troika) and, in his
Conference of the Council for Secular Humanism, Los
own right, between 1998-2003.
Angeles, 2000
His father was a Pentecostalist preacher, and in his
teens Fragell also began working full-time as a preacher, Persondata
before his studies in philosophy and comparative reli- Name Fragell, Levi
gion led him to leave the church. He took a university de- Alternative names
gree in the sociology of religion and then worked for a
Short description
year as a school teacher in northern Norway, before be-
coming a journalist, and later working in marketing. He Date of birth 30 March 1939
also became press secretary to several cabinet ministers Place of birth
in Norway.[1][2]
Date of death
In 1976, he became leader of the Norwegian Humanist
Association (Human-Etisk Forbund) at a time when it had Place of death
1500 members; its membership later grew to over 75,000
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