January 11, 2012
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Dr. Eric Kaufmann discussed his new new book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Based on demographic research focused on immigration, multiculturalism, and the inheritance of religious belief, the author explored the effects of the rise of religious conservatism and the corresponding decline in liberal secularism.
This event was sponsored by The Institute for Global History and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
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Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (Profile Books, 2011). In addition, he has authored The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Harvard, 2004), The Orange Order (Oxford 2007, 2009), Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945 with H. Patterson (Manchester 2007), and edited Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (Routledge 2004) and,with J. Goldstone and M. Toft, Political Demography (Paradigm 2011). An editor of the journal Nations & Nationalism, his work focuses on dominant ethnicity, nationalism theory, the sociology of religion, and political demography