Eric Kaufmann

Required

Hout, Michael, Andrew Greeley and Melissa J. Wilde (2001). “The demographic imperative in religious change in the United States,” American Journal of Sociology 107(2): 468-500

Kaufmann, Eric and Vegard Skirbekk (2010).”‘Go Forth and Multiply’: the politics of religious demography,” in Jack A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft, eds. Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Boulder: Paradigm).

Kaufmann, Eric (2010). Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (London: Profile), chapter 1

Recommended

Brauer, Simon (2018). “The surprising predictable decline of religion in the United States.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 57(4): 654-675.

Bruce, Steve (2016). “The sociology of late secularization: social divisions and religiosity.” The British Journal of Sociology 67(4): 613-631.

Frejka, Tomas, and Charles F. Westoff (2008). “Religion, religiousness and fertility in the US and in Europe.” European Journal of Population 24(1): 5-31.

Hawley, George (2017). Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations (Lanham: Lexington Books).

Inglehart, Ronald (2020). “Giving up on God: The Global Decline of Religion,” Foreign Affairs, 110

Jones, Gavin W. and Mehtar S. Karim (2005). Islam, the State and Population Policy (London: Hurst).

Joyce, Kathryn (2009). Quiverfull: inside the Christian patriarchy movement (Boston: Beacon Press).

Karakoç, Ekrem, Talha Köse, and Mesut Özcan (2017). “Emigration and the diffusion of political Salafism: Religious remittances and support for Salafi parties in Egypt during the Arab Spring.” Party Politics 23(6): 731-745.

Longman, Philip (2005). The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to do About it (New York: Basic Books), chapters 4 and 6

Norris, Pippa and Ronald Inglehart (2005). Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Okun, Barbara S. (2017) “Religiosity and fertility: Jews in Israel.” European Journal of Population 33(4): 475-507.

Peri-Rotem, Nitzan (2016). “Religion and fertility in Western Europe: Trends across cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands.” European Journal of Population 32(2): 231-265.

Schellekens, Jona, and A’as Atrash. “Religiosity and marital fertility among Muslims in Israel.” Demographic Research 39 (2018): 911-926.

Stark, Rodney and Reid L. Neilson (2005). The Rise of Mormonism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Stark, Rodney (1996). The Rise of Christianity: a sociologist reconsiders history (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Toft, Monica (2012). “Wombfare: The religious and political dimensions of fertility and demographic change,” in Jack A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft, eds. Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics (Boulder: Paradigm).

Weiner, Myron and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds. (2001) Demography and National Security (New York: Berghahn Books), especially chapter 12 (Islam & West) and conclusion

Westoff, Charles F. and Tomas Frejka (2007). “Religiousness and fertility among European Muslims.” Population and Development Review 33(4): 785-809.

Winckler, Onn (2005). Arab Political Demography: Population Growth, Labor Migration and Natalist Policies (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press), Conclusion.

Essay Question

• ‘Religious fundamentalism will defeat secularism because the devout have more children.’ Discuss.