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→Eric Kaufmann on the future of religious immigration
See also: [[Growth of religious fundamentalism]]
See also: [[Growth of religious fundamentalism]]
== Religious immigrants to Europe resistant to secularization ==
[[File:800px-Mikolow protestant church pulpit.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Conservative [[Protestantism|Protestants]] have relatively high fertility rates.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/immigrants-become-more-religious-longer.html Religious immigrants will alter the religious landscape of Europe]</ref> (Picture: Protestant church pulpit in Europe) ]]
''See also:'' [[Desecularization]] and [[Growth of global desecularization]]
In 2011, a paper was published entitled ''The End of Secularization in Europe?: A Socio-Demographic Perspective''. The authors of the paper were: Eric Kaufmann - Birkbeck College, University of London; Anne Goujon - World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Vegard Skirbekk World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/immigrants-become-more-religious-longer.html Religious immigrants will alter the religious landscape of Europe]</ref>
An excerpt from the paper by Kaufmann, Goujon and Skirbekk:
{{cquote|Conservative Protestants, a much larger group than the Mormons, also benefit from relatively high fertility. Hout et al. (2001) find that three-quarters of the growth of conservative Protestant denominations against their liberal counterparts is due to fertility advantage rather than conversion.
In Europe, there has been less attention paid to fertility differences between denominations. However, several studies have discovered that immigrants to Europe tend to be more religious than the host population and — especially if Muslim—tend to retain their religiosity (Van Tubergen 2006). Though some indicators point to modest religious decline toward the host society mean, other trends suggest that immigrants become more, rather than less, religious the longer they reside in the host society (Van Tubergen 2007). All of which indicates that religious decline may fail at the aggregate level even if it is occurring at the individual level (Kaufmann 2006, 2010). This article thereby investigates the hypothesis that a combination of higher religious fertility, immigration, and slowing rates of religious apostasy will eventually produce a reversal in the decline of the religious population of Western Europe.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2012/08/immigrants-become-more-religious-longer.html Religious immigrants will alter the religious landscape of Europe]</ref>}}
Research indicates that among ethnic minority immigrants religion is a source of group ethnic identification which makes them more resistant to secularization.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref> In most countries, with the exception of France, Muslim immigrants have nearly 100% retention rates for the second generation.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref>
=== Islamic creationism and resistance to assimilation ===
In recent years Britain, the birthplace of Darwinism, has seen a large influx of [[Islam|Muslim]] immigrants. Most religious Muslims are creationists.<ref>Hameed S (2008). "Bracing for Islamic creationism". Science 322 (5908): 1637–8.</ref> In the UK, between the years 2001 and 2009 the Muslim population increased nearly 10 times faster than the non-Muslim population.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5621482.ece Muslim population 'rising 10 times faster than rest of society]' 30 January 2009, Richard Kerbaj, The Sunday Times</ref> See also: [[Atheism vs. Islam#Atheism, Islam and belief in evolution|Islam and belief in creationism]]
The British newspaper ''The Telegraph'' reported in an article entitled ''Richard Dawkins: Muslim parents 'import creationism' into schools'':
{{cquote|Prof Dawkins, a well-known atheist, also blamed the Government for accommodating religious views and allowing creationism to be taught in schools.
"Most devout Muslims are creationists so when you go to schools, there are a large number of children of Islamic parents who trot out what they have been taught," Prof Dawkins said in a Sunday newspaper interview.
"Teachers are bending over backwards to respect home prejudices that children have been brought up with. The Government could do more, but it doesn't want to because it is fanatical about [[multiculturalism]] and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come."<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2494397/Richard-Dawkins-Muslim-parents-import-creationism-into-schools.html ''Richard Dawkins: Muslim parents 'import creationism' into schools''], ''The Telegraph''</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==