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→Eric Kaufmann on the future of religious fundamentalism
== Eric Kaufmann on the future of religious fundamentalism ==
== Eric Kaufmann on the future of religious fundamentalism ==
[[Eric Kaufmann]] is a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and author. His academic research specialty is how [[demography|demographic]] changes affect religion/irreligion and politics.
According to Kaufmann:
{{cquote|It will be a century or more before the world completes its [[demography|demographic]] transition. There is still too much smoke in the air for us to pick out the peaks and valleys of the emerging social order. This much seems certain: without a new [secular liberal] ideology to inspire social cohesion, fundamentalism cannot be stopped. The religious shall inherit the earth." - Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]]<ref>[https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/the-stork-theory/ The Stork Theory] By Allan C. Carlson, February 28, 2018</ref>}}
At a conference Kaufmann said of religious demographic projections concerning the 21st century:
At a conference Kaufmann said of religious demographic projections concerning the 21st century: