Baylor University Press Fertility and faith: the demographic revolution and the transformation of world religions, hardcover/philip jenkins

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Demography drives religious change.

High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout.

The lower a population's fertility rates, the greater the tendency for people to detach from organized or institutional religion.

Thus, fertility rates supply an effective gauge of secularization trends.

In Fertility and Faith , Philip Jenkins maps the demographic revolution that has taken hold of many countries around the globe in recent decade.