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• New Book: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (London: Profile Books, 25 March 2010) Hear a podcast interview with George Miller of Blackwell's on the book. See a youtube video of Eric's talk at the RSA on 15 April 2010. Other podcast interviews below.

• Upcoming edited book: Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions, edited by J. A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010), forthcoming

Reviews of the Book:

New Humanist (cover story by Caspar Melville), 'Battle of the Babies', March/April issue. Chosen as an 'article of note' in Arts and Letters Daily, early April.

15 March - Daily Telegraph (Ed West) - 'Atheism is doomed: the contraceptive Pill is secularism's cyanide tablet'

21 March - Sunday Times (Dominic Lawson), 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'

22-28 March - Big Issue Scotland (cover story), 'God's Comeback'

31 March - London Metro (Robert Murphy), 'Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?: Eric Kaufmann may have the answer'

4 April - Financial Times (John Lloyd), 'Abraham's Children on the March'

April - Literary Review (Douglas Murray), 'We're All Doomed'

4 April - Theos (Nick Spencer) - 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'

9 April - Independent (Ziauddin Sardar) - 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'

17 April - Toronto Globe and Mail (Doug Saunders) - 'Swamped by Religion'

18 April - Morning Star (Michael Boncza) - 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'

Interviews, Podcasts, Articles of Mine, and Commentary on the Book:

4 March 2010, 7pm Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London: Appearance at Jewish Book Week, on panel with Dominique Moisi and John Kampfner on panel on 'Threats to our Democracy'. Details at:  http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2010/democracy-at-risk.php  [podcast of debate here]

'17 Oct, 2009: “Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist”, Verso Book Launch Debate on Ernst Bloch's Atheism in Christianity, Saturday 17th October 2009, 3pm – 5pm, Room B35, Birkbeck College  London (podcasted event)

Europe's Muslim Future', Eric Kaufmann, Prospect, April

Friendly Atheist (interview), Hemant Mehta, 19 March

'Rise of the Fundamentalists', Slugger O' Toole, 22 March

Mercator.net (interview), April

'Mormons: ‘We don’t want Bible bashers' (Alice Fishburn and Hattie Garlick), Sunday Times, 1 April

Belief.net (Rod Dreher) - 'The (very) Religious Shall Inherit the Earth', 2 April

Sunday Star Times (New Zealand)

Kenan Malik.com, 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth', 9 April

Media Appearances and Talks:

Book Launch & reception: 25 March 2010, room 403, 6pm, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London

28 March: BBC Radio Scotland (religious affairs programme)

29 March: BBC World Service, World Update, 11-12 AM

1 April, 11-12 am: Today Show with Pat Kenny, RTE (Ireland) Radio 1. Hear interview podcast.

7 April, 4-430 pm : Appearance on BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' with Tariq Ramadan and Rebecca Goldstein

12 April: BBC World Service 'Politics UK'. Debate with Lord Robert Skidelsky and Mehdi Hasan, political editor, New Statesman, on immigration in the UK and Europe

14 April, 4 pm: Afternoon Show with Sean Moncrieff, RTE Radio (Ireland)

15 April: Debate on the book with Dominic Lawson of The Sunday Times at RSA, London, 6 pm. Moderated by Laurie Taylor and co-sponsored by New Humanist magazine Youtube clip of event

5 May - 630 pm - Reading Public Library

10 June - 8 pm - Iona Institute, Dublin

11 July - 11 am - South Place Ethical Society, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square London

Notable Past Items:

• 10-13 March 2010: 'Sacralization by Stealth?: The Religious Consequences of Low Fertility in Europe', for conference on "Causes, Consequences & Responses to Low Fertility,” hosted by the Social Trends Institute, Barcelona

• research mentioned in 'A Nightmare for Richard Dawkins: statistics show that atheists are a dying breed', Ed West, Daily Telegraph (UK), 18 September 2009

• 'The Return of Economic Nationalism’, Providence Journal, June 20, 2009

• 'The Changing Face of Israel' (co-authored with R. Cincotta), Foreign Policy (web exclusive), June 2009

• 'The Global War for Souls', a review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 'God is Back', Prospect, June 2009

• ‘The Role of Islam in the Re-Sacralization of Europe’, for conference on ‘The Political Future of Muslim Communities in Western Europe: Implications for Western European States in 2030’, National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, May 29, 2009, Washington, DC

• Conference: 'Demography and Security: the Politics of Population Change', Weatherhead Center, Harvard, organized by Monica Toft, Jack Goldstone and myself, May 7-8, 2009

• My Book, The Orange Order (Oxford U. Press) appeared in paperback, April 2009

• Article on the legacy of the late Samuel Huntington, ‘The Meaning of Huntington’, in Prospect magazine, February 2009

• My research mentioned in Anthony Gottlieb's article, 'Faith Equals Fertility', Intelligent Life (Economist), Winter 2008

• ‘Peaceful Xenophobes’, Prospect, November 2008

• Commentary on my November 2006 Prospect/Newsweek article, 'Breeding for God' at Richard Dawkins.net

• Winner of Political Studies Association 2008 Richard Rose Prize: 'awarded to a younger scholar who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British politics (including Northern Ireland), through the publication of books and articles'

• My Prospect article was printed in abridged form as 'Faith's Comeback' in the November 7-13 issue of Newsweek International edition

• My article, 'Breeding for God' was published in the November 2006 issue of Prospect as the cover story

• 'The End of Secularisation in Europe' on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed' Programme, Wednesday, 4 October. To hear the programme live, click on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20061004.shtml  or download directly here.

Other Past Items

Main Research Interests:

• Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Religiosity, Fertility and Politics

• The Political Demography of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Religion

• Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

• The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States

• Orangeism

• Canadian Identity

• Comparative Nationalism and Ethnicity

• Cosmopolitanism and Universalism

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