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[[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[Protestantism]] and [[Islam]] are growing in [[Europe]]. Below are some statistics regarding their growth in various European countries plus some projections for the growth of evangelical Protestantism and Islam in Europe in the 21st century by the demography/religious/political scholar [[Eric Kaufmann]].
[[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] [[Protestantism]] and [[Islam]] are growing in [[Europe]]. Below are some statistics regarding their growth in various European countries plus some projections for the growth of evangelical Protestantism and Islam in Europe in the 21st century by the demography/religious/political scholar [[Eric Kaufmann]].
On December 23, 2012, Professor [[Eric Kaufmann]] who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London wrote:
{{cquote|I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious.
On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population... In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/eric-kaufmann/london-a-rising-island-of-religion_b_2336699.html London: A Rising Island of Religion in a Secular Sea] by Eric Kaufmann, ''Huffington Post'', 2012</ref>
<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97-of-worlds-population-growth-is.html 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious], Tuesday, April 30, 2013</ref>}}
== Future of European desecularization in the 21st century ==
== Future of European desecularization in the 21st century ==