Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
In the sociology of religion, the secularization and religious marketplace paradigms focus on religious switching as the primary means through which religion in the West will either survive or continue to decline. In Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Eric Kaufmann argues that this focus is misp...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2013
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 417-419 |
| Review of: | Shall the religious inherit the earth? (London : Profile Books, 2010) (McClendon, David)
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| Summary: | In the sociology of religion, the secularization and religious marketplace paradigms focus on religious switching as the primary means through which religion in the West will either survive or continue to decline. In Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Eric Kaufmann argues that this focus is misplaced: While patterns of disaffiliation and conversion were important in the past, demographic forces—both fertility and migration—are now poised to be the principal drivers of religious change in Western societies., He begins with what he terms the coming “crisis of secularism.” Liberal intellectuals and politicians are fond of framing the “decline” of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world as an inevitable step towards greater scientific and moral progress. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt026 |