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Line 105: − − == Global decline of atheism in the 20th and 21st centuries == − [[File:Blue Marble.jpg|thumbnail|right|225px|Atheism is [[Decline of atheism|in decline worldwide]] in terms of its global percentage of adherents.]] − − ''See also:'' [[Global atheism]] and [[Desecularization]] − − Atheists as a percentage of the world's population have declined since 1970 and atheism is expected to face long term decline.<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-world-is-turning-more-religious-atheism-declining-100518/ Study: World is becoming more religious]</ref><ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/05/globally-worldviews-of-atheism-and-non.html Globally the worldviews of atheism and non-religious (agnostic) are declining while global Christianity is exploding in adherents]</ref><ref>[http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources/documents/StatusOfGlobalMission.pdf Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - Status of Global Missions]</ref><ref>[http://www.gordonconwell.edu/resources/documents/StatusOfGlobalMission.pdf Gordon-Conwell Seminary - Status of Global Mission, 2014, in the Context of AD 1800–2025]</ref> − − On July 24, 2013, ''CNS News'' reported: − {{cquote|Atheism is [[Decline of atheism|in decline worldwide]], with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass."<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-study-atheists-decline-only-18-world-population-2020 Global Study: Atheists in Decline, Only 1.8% of World Population by 2020]</ref>}} − − The collapse of the atheistic [[Soviet Union]] in 1991 caused a large drop in the percentage of atheists in the world's population.<ref>[http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/research/documents/TheDemographicsofChristianMartyrdom.pdf CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM: A GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT] by Todd M. Johnson, Notre Dame, November 2012</ref> − − The American [[sociology|sociologist]] and author [[Peter L. Berger]] introduced the concept of [[desecularization]] in 1999.<ref>[http://intl-jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/2/232.full#fn-2 ''Journal of Church and State'', Desecularization: A Conceptual Framework by Vyacheslav Karpov, 2010]</ref><ref>Peter L. Berger, “The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview,” in The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, ed. Peter L. Berger (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999)</ref>
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see: [[Schools of atheist thought]] and [[Atheist factions]]
see: [[Schools of atheist thought]] and [[Atheist factions]]
==See also==
==See also==