Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century

Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century image
ISBN-10:

1846681448

ISBN-13:

9781846681448

Author(s): Kaufmann, Eric
Edition: Main
Released: Apr 19, 2011
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
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Dawkins and Hitchens have convinced many western intellectuals that secularism is the way forward. But most people don't read their books before deciding whether to be religious. Instead, they inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate them against the elegant arguments of secularists. And what no one has noticed is that far from declining, the religious are expanding their share of the population: in fact, the more religious people are, the more children they have. The cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the West. Not only will the religious eventually triumph over the non-religious, but it is those who are the most extreme in their beliefs who have the largest families.Within Judaism, the Ultra-Orthodox may achieve majority status over their liberal counterparts by mid-century. Islamist Muslims have won the culture war in much of the Muslim world, and their s












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