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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Profile Books, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (587 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781847651945
  • 1847651941
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? : Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century.DDC classification:
  • 200.905
LOC classification:
  • BL238.K38 2010
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1 The Crisis of Secularism; 2 The Hidden Hand of History: Demography and Society; 3 'A Full Quiver': Fertility and the Rise of American Fundamentalism; 4 The Demography of Islamism in the Muslim World; 5 Sacralisation by Stealth: Religion Returns to Europe; 6 'A Scholar Society': The Haredisation of the Jewish World; 7 Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?; Notes; Index.
Summary: 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 s.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)590209

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1 The Crisis of Secularism; 2 The Hidden Hand of History: Demography and Society; 3 'A Full Quiver': Fertility and the Rise of American Fundamentalism; 4 The Demography of Islamism in the Muslim World; 5 Sacralisation by Stealth: Religion Returns to Europe; 6 'A Scholar Society': The Haredisation of the Jewish World; 7 Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?; Notes; Index.

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 s.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-312) and index.