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[[Desecularization]] is the process by which [[religion]] reasserts its societal influence though religious values, institutions, sectors of society and symbols in reaction to previous and/or co-occurring [[secularization]] processes.<ref>''Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival and Revival'' by Christopher Marsh, 2011, page 11 (Christopher Marsh cites the definitions of desecularization given by Peter L. Berger and Vyacheslav Karpov)</ref>
[[Desecularization]] is the process by which [[religion]] reasserts its societal influence though religious values, institutions, sectors of society and symbols in reaction to previous and/or co-occurring [[secularization]] processes.<ref>''Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival and Revival'' by Christopher Marsh, 2011, page 11 (Christopher Marsh cites the definitions of desecularization given by Peter L. Berger and Vyacheslav Karpov)</ref>
The 21st century is expected to be a time of the decline of atheism in terms of its global market share and religious conservatism/[[fundamentalism]] is expected to grow in both the developing world and [[Growth of evangelical Christianity#Evangelical Christianity and the developed world|in the developed world]] (see: [[Desecularization]]). There are a [[causes of desecularization|number of causes]] of desecularization in the developed world (and the world at large), but two of the primary causes are the [[Fertility rates and desecularization|higher fertility rate]] of religious conservatives and immigration of the religious into developed countries.
The 21st century is expected to be a time of the decline of atheism in terms of its global market share and religious conservatism/[[fundamentalism]] is expected to grow in both the developing world and [[Growth of evangelical Christianity#Evangelical Christianity and the developed world|in the developed world]] (see: [[Desecularization]]). There are a [[causes of desecularization|number of causes]] of desecularization in the developed world (and the world at large), but two of the primary causes are the [[Atheism and fertility rates|higher fertility rate]] of religious conservatives and immigration of the religious into developed countries.
=== Failure of the secularization thesis ===
=== Failure of the secularization thesis ===