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Religion's sudden decline : what's causing it, and what comes next? / Ronald F. Inglehart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Inglehart, Ronald, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--History--21st century.
- Religion.
- Religion--Forecasting.
- Religion and sociology--Scandinavia.
- Religion and sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.
- Contents:
- The shift from pro-fertility norms to individual-choice norms
- Religion matters
- The secularization debate
- Evolutionary modernization theory and secularization
- What's causing it? : the rise of individual-choice norms
- What's causing it? : insecurity
- Secularization accelerates in high-income countries
- What comes next : people need a clear belief system
- What is replacing religion?
- What comes next : at what point does even Sweden get a xenophobic authoritarian party?
- What comes next?
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-754708-7
- 0-19-754706-0
- 0-19-754707-9
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