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Currently, the [[atheist population]] is shrinking as a percentage of the world's population (see: [[Global atheism statistics]]). Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NtvDErEmBY Shall the religious inherit the earth - Festival of Dangerous Ideas - Erik Kaufmann]</ref>  

Currently, the [[atheist population]] is shrinking as a percentage of the world's population (see: [[Global atheism statistics]]). Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NtvDErEmBY Shall the religious inherit the earth - Festival of Dangerous Ideas - Erik Kaufmann]</ref>  

Kaufmann maintains that: the religious will grow as a percentage of the world's population in the 21st century; the more religious people are, the more children they have; those who are most fervent in their religion - namely [[fundamentalism|fundamentalists]] - have the largest families; most people inherit their faith from their parents, who often inoculate their children against the arguments of secularists; the cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the Western World (sometime between 2021 and 2050),  religious conservatism will triumph over liberal secularism in the 21st century.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448 ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' - Amazon]</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' by Eric Kaufmann]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2011/05/eric-kaufmann-shall-religious-inherit.html Eric Kaufmann: Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/search/label/atheist%20demographics Eric Kaufmann's Atheist Demographic series]</ref><ref>[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]</ref>

Kaufmann maintains that: the religious will grow as a percentage of the world's population in the 21st century; the more religious people are, the more children they have; those who are most fervent in their religion - namely [[fundamentalism|fundamentalists]] - have the largest families; most people inherit their faith from their parents, who often inoculate their children against the arguments of secularists; the cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the Western World (sometime between 2021 and 2050),  religious conservatism will triumph over liberal secularism in the 21st century.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448 ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' - Amazon]</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' by Eric Kaufmann]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2011/05/eric-kaufmann-shall-religious-inherit.html Eric Kaufmann: Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/search/label/atheist%20demographics Eric Kaufmann's Atheist Demographic series]</ref><ref>[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]</ref> See also: [[Desecularization]] and [[Religion and its projected increase in the 22nd century]]

Kaufmann and other scholars have noted that religious immigrants and their offspring are often very resistant to secularization and there is some social science research indicating that the children of immigrants tend to become more religious than their parents.<ref>''[http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/08/07/socrel.srr033.abstract The End of Secularization in Europe?:A Socio-Demographic Perspective]'', Academic journal: Sociology of Religion (2011) doi: 10.1093/socrel/srr033.  The authors of the paper were: Eric Kaufmann -

Kaufmann and other scholars have noted that religious immigrants and their offspring are often very resistant to secularization and there is some social science research indicating that the children of immigrants tend to become more religious than their parents.<ref>''[http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/08/07/socrel.srr033.abstract The End of Secularization in Europe?:A Socio-Demographic Perspective]'', Academic journal: Sociology of Religion (2011) doi: 10.1093/socrel/srr033.  The authors of the paper were: Eric Kaufmann -