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Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next?

Autor Ronald F. Inglehart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2021

Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?The world is becoming less religious. Since 2007, there has been a pervasive decline in religious belief and most of the world's people now say that God is less important in their lives than they said He was in the quarter century before 2007. The American public showed the most dramatic shift of all. The United States, which for many years stood as a highly religious outlier among the world's high-income countries, now ranks as the 12th least religious country for which data are available.Many factors contributed to this dramatic worldwide shift, but as Inglehart shows, certain ones stand out. For centuries, virtually all major religions encouraged women to stay home and produce as many children as possible; and they sternly discouraged divorce, abortion, homosexuality, contraception,and any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. These norms were necessary for societies to survive when facing high infant mortality and low life expectancy: societies that didn't instill them tended to die out. Recent technological advances have greatly increased life expectancy and cut infant mortality to a tiny fraction of its historic levels, making these norms no longer necessary for societal survival. These norms require repressing strong natural urges, but, sincethey present traditional norms as absolute values, most religions strongly resist change. The resulting tension, together with the fact that rising existential security has made people less dependent on religion, opened the way for an exodus from religion. Utilizing a massive global data base,Inglehart analyzes the conditions under which religiosity collapses, and explores its implications for the future.

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ISBN-13: 9780197547052
ISBN-10: 0197547052
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Inglehart has rewritten the story of how modernization affects religion. You might not agree with his theory, but you need to read this book: it will be cited in debates over religious change for years to come.
Overall, Inglehart's book is as thorough and detailed as it is accessible and engaging.
In Religion's Sudden Decline,... Ronald F. Inglehart points specifically to the rise of what he calls "existential security" as the key driver, presenting global survey data that show that countries with high political stability and low socioeconomic inequality are more secular than those with the opposite characteristics.

Notă biografică

Ronald F. Inglehart is the Lowenstein Professor of Political Science emeritus at the University of Michigan. He helped found the Euro-Barometer surveys and is Founding President of the World Values Survey Association, which since 1981 has repeatedly surveyed representative national samples of the publics of 108 countries containing over 90 percent of the world's population. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of theAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science and has three honorary doctorates.