Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing It, and What Comes Next? Inglehart Ronald F.
Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing It, and What Comes Next? Inglehart Ronald F. Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?The world is…
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Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing It, and What Comes Next? Inglehart Ronald F.
Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?The world is becoming less religious. The American public showed the most dramatic shift of all. 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.
Many factors contributed to this dramatic worldwide shift, but as Inglehart shows, certain ones stand out. 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. For centuries, virtually all major religions encouraged women to stay home and produce as many children as possible; and they sternly discouraged divorce, abortion,
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