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In the [[United States]], there were a series of Christian revivals/awakenings between 1730 and the 1970s (see: [[First Great Awakening]] and [[Second Great Awakening]] and [[Third Great Awakening]] and [[Fourth Great Awakening]] and [[Jesus Movement]]).
In the [[United States]], there were a series of Christian revivals/awakenings between 1730 and the 1970s (see: [[First Great Awakening]] and [[Second Great Awakening]] and [[Third Great Awakening]] and [[Fourth Great Awakening]] and [[Jesus Movement]]).
== Global decline of nones in the 21st Century ==
''See also:'' [[Nones]]
According to the Pew Research Forum:
{{cquote|These projections, which take into account demographic factors such as fertility, age composition and life expectancy, forecast that people with no religion will make up about 13% of the world’s population in 2050, down from roughly 16% as of 2010.
This is largely attributable to the fact that [http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol32/27/ religious “nones” are, on average, older and have fewer children] than people who are affiliated with a religion...
China, with its large population and lack of reliable data on religious switching, [http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/main-factors-driving-population-growth/#the-potential-impact-of-religious-switching-in-china is something of a wild card] when it comes to the future of world religion. This is especially true for the religiously unaffiliated population; more than half of the world’s people who do not identify with any religion live in China (roughly 700 million).
Some experts believe the Christian population in China is rising while the religiously unaffiliated population is falling. If this is true – and the trend continues – religious “nones” could decline as a share of the world’s population even more than the Pew Research Center study projects.<ref>[http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/03/why-people-with-no-religion-are-projected-to-decline-as-a-share-of-the-worlds-population/ Why people with no religion are projected to decline as a share of the world’s population], Pew Forum</ref>}}
[[Eric 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>[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Shall the religious inherit the earth]</ref> Furthermore, Kaufmann also argues that secularization may reverse itself significantly earlier than 2050 in the West due to religious immigration and a religious population which is increasingly resistant to secularization in Europe.<ref>*[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/european-christian-immigration-will.html European immigration will pour Christian creationists into Europe]
*[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-future-of-european-darwinism-and_16.html The future of European Darwinism and atheism is bleak]</ref>
== Decline of American 1990s secularism ==
== Decline of American 1990s secularism ==