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

Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?:
The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism

A Study in Religion, Demography and Politics

Dr. Eric P. Kaufmann, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK e.kaufmann@bbk.ac.uk

Summary

This project argues that the population of the developed world will become increasingly religious and conservative in the long-term, reversing decades – even centuries – of liberal secularisation. There will be no mass conversions or sudden shifts in the cultural mood. Instead, religiosity will spread largelythrough demographic advantage in a world where secular religions and sources of secular enchantment have exhausted themselves.

Books

Findings available in a 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 youtube video of Eric’s  talk at the RSA on April 15

Upcoming edited book: Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions, edited by J. A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2010), forthcoming

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Reviews of the Book

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

Upcoming Appearances

Recent:

  • Europe’s Muslim Future‘, Eric Kaufmann, Prospect, April
  • 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
  • 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
  • 17 October 2009: ‘Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist’, Debate on Ernst Bloch’s Atheism in Christianity, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London (podcasted event)

Working Papers, Media & Articles

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