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Religion's Sudden Decline (häftad, eng)
Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?The world is becoming less religious. Since...
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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, since they 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.
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, since they 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.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 208 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Oxford University Press Inc |
Utgivningsdatum | 2021-03-03 |
ISBN | 9780197547052 |
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- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 208
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2021-03-03
- ISBN 9780197547052
- Förlag Oxford University Press Inc
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- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 208
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2021-03-03
- ISBN 9780197547052
- Förlag Oxford University Press Inc