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Declining Europe Declining Europe
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Southern Boom Southern Boom
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Damned Lies and Statistics Damned Lies and Statistics
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The Future Demographics of Religion The Future Demographics of Religion
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The Un‐Secular City The Un‐Secular City
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Europe Europe
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The New Europeans The New Europeans
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The United States The United States
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Christian America? Christian America?
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Five The Rise of the New Christianity
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Published:May 2002
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Abstract
This chapter presents an analysis of the growth of the new Southern Christianity in relation to population growth in Southern countries, which is expected to surge dramatically in the middle term (the next fifty years) before coming to resemble more those of the older industrial nations. This is contrasted with the situation in Europe (and Japan), where the population is declining. The impact of Southern population growth on the world’s religious structures is discussed in terms of the problems of quantifying and predicting church membership, and the possible future demographics of Christian communities are discussed, including those of the steadily growing and huge metropolitan complexes that are likely to exist in the South by 2050. The next three sections of the chapter look at declining religious identification (dechristianization) in Europe, and at what may happen when Southern peoples face continuing pressure to migrate North to Europe and North America (in particular the United States), bringing their religious and cultural patterns with them. The last section discusses Christian America, and the fact that the United States is home to a remarkable number of religious denominations, which, overwhelmingly, are traditions within the broader stream of Christianity.
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