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*[http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/may/growth-explosion-chinas-christianity-takes-root-/ Jesus in the Rice Fields: China's Countryside Revival By George Thomas, CBN News Sr. Reporter, Friday, August 09, 2013]
*[http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/may/growth-explosion-chinas-christianity-takes-root-/ Jesus in the Rice Fields: China's Countryside Revival By George Thomas, CBN News Sr. Reporter, Friday, August 09, 2013]
*[http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/china%20cry.html China Cry: A True Story (1990)]</ref> The word desecularization was coined by the American [[sociology|sociologist]] and author [[Peter L. Berger]], who was a former proponent of the [[secularization thesis]], in his 1999 book ''The Desecularization of the World''.<ref name=":22">{{Cite journal |last=Karpov |first=V. |date=2010-03-01 |title=Desecularization: A Conceptual Framework |url=https://academic.oup.com/jcs/article/52/2/232/781896 |journal=Journal of Church and State |language=en |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=232–270, 232 |doi=10.1093/jcs/csq058 |issn=0021-969X |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>[http://intl-jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/2/232.full#fn-2 ''Journal of Church and State'', Desecularization: A Conceptual Framework by Vyacheslav Karpov, 2010]</ref><ref>Peter L. Berger, “The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview,” in The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, ed. Peter L. Berger (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999)</ref>
*[http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/china%20cry.html China Cry: A True Story (1990)]</ref> The word desecularization was coined by the American [[sociology|sociologist]] and author [[Peter L. Berger]], who was a former proponent of the [[secularization thesis]], in his 1999 book ''The Desecularization of the World''.<ref name=":22">{{Cite journal |last=Karpov |first=V. |date=2010-03-01 |title=Desecularization: A Conceptual Framework |url=https://academic.oup.com/jcs/article/52/2/232/781896 |journal=Journal of Church and State |language=en |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=232–270, 232 |doi=10.1093/jcs/csq058 |issn=0021-969X |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>[http://intl-jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/2/232.full#fn-2 ''Journal of Church and State'', Desecularization: A Conceptual Framework by Vyacheslav Karpov, 2010]</ref><ref>Peter L. Berger, “The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview,” in The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, ed. Peter L. Berger (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999)</ref>
From 2024 to 2025, the number of atheists in the world dropped by 831,000 atheists according to the [[Center for the Study of Global Christianity]] at [[Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary]].<ref>[https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2025/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2025.pdf Status of Global Atheism/Christianity, 2025, in the Context of 1900–2050]</ref><ref>[https://www.gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/01/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2024.pdf Status of Global Atheism/Christianity, 2024, in the Context of 1900–2050]</ref>
On March 15, 2024, Frontier Partners International reported concerning [[global atheism]]: "Simultaneously, atheism, which once saw a peak around 1970 with 165 million adherents, is on the decline. The current growth trend for atheism is -0.12 percent, with their number falling from 147 million in 2020 to 146 million in 2024."<ref>[https://www.frontierpartners.org/global-christianity-surges Global Christianity surges beyond projections in 2024], LiCAS.news • Mar 15, 2024, Frontiers Patners Intertnational, 2024</ref> See also: [[Global atheism statistics]]
On March 15, 2024, Frontier Partners International reported concerning [[global atheism]]: "Simultaneously, atheism, which once saw a peak around 1970 with 165 million adherents, is on the decline. The current growth trend for atheism is -0.12 percent, with their number falling from 147 million in 2020 to 146 million in 2024."<ref>[https://www.frontierpartners.org/global-christianity-surges Global Christianity surges beyond projections in 2024], LiCAS.news • Mar 15, 2024, Frontiers Patners Intertnational, 2024</ref> See also: [[Global atheism statistics]]