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According to recent projections, by 2050 Christians will make up around 36 percent of the world population (today the number is around 33 percent). Western Christianity’s share of the pie will, however, continue to decline in this development. According to the outlook, by 2050 there will be...
According to Li, before the large-scale expansion of Christianity, the mainstream ideology or lifestyle of Roman countries advocated worldly enjoyment, and the overall values of society were secular. However, with the rise of Christianity and its absorption of Oriental mysticism culture, the secular ...
Recently, however, Rauch said religion has merged with political and cultural forces, and this politicization has contributed to both the decline of the Church and the weakening of American democracy. Christianity, according to Rauch, has failed to remain the stoic force it once was, independen...
While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are, in fact, stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and respon...
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"But even in that hypothetical situation, the religious makeup of the U.S. population would continue to shift gradually," the report says, "primarily as a result of Christians being older than other groups, on average, and the unaffiliated being younger, with a larger share of their populati...
The character of the early Christians would probably be most surprising to modern lay Christians. The bulk of the early converts were from the lower classes in the cities. As the great historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) summarized in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788): ...
In an interverview, he explained that he had assumed that the decline of Christianity would result in a value neutral, enlightened, secular culture would emerge to replace it. He was wrong. Instead, the vacuum left by Christianity’s absence was filled by something worse: the unleashing of ...