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Eric Kaufmann wrote:
Eric Kaufmann wrote:
{{cquote|The same is true in the United States. “Nones” may be the third-largest religious group in the United States, and ex-Catholics the fourth-largest, but the switching story needs a demographic context. If America remained 70 percent white, the population would reach European levels of secularization in two generations and Catholics would rapidly lose market share to Protestants. Instead, swift Hispanic and Asian population growth is projected to stabilize the share of nonreligious Americans at roughly today’s levels.<ref>[http://www.aei.org/publication/the-future-will-be-more-religious-and-conservative-than-you-think/print/ The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think] by Eric Kaufmann</ref>}}
{{cquote|The same is true in the United States. “Nones” may be the third-largest religious group in the United States, and ex-Catholics the fourth-largest, but the switching story needs a demographic context. If America remained 70 percent white, the population would reach European levels of secularization in two generations and Catholics would rapidly lose market share to Protestants. Instead, swift Hispanic and Asian population growth is projected to stabilize the share of nonreligious Americans at roughly today’s levels.<ref>[http://www.aei.org/publication/the-future-will-be-more-religious-and-conservative-than-you-think/print/ The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think] by Eric Kaufmann</ref>}}
== Desecularization of Asia ==
''See also:'' [[Desecularization of Asia]]
According to the global news website ''Quartz'':
{{cquote|[[Atheism|Atheists]], [[Agnostics|agnostics]], and other [[Nones|religious non-affiliates]] are a dying breed in Asia. According to a [http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol32/27/32-27.pdf Pew Research Center study] released last week, Asia’s shrinking pool of men and women who don’t identify with any religion are driving a drop in the proportion of “religious nones” in the world.
The percentage of the unaffiliated in Asia Pacific—home to about 76% of the world’s unaffiliated—will fall to 17% in 2050 from 21%, Pew estimates. ...this drop in Asia and the growth of religious communities elsewhere will mean the unaffiliated will make up only 13% of the world’s population in 2050, down from 16% in 2010.<ref>[http://qz.com/377065/across-the-asia-pacific-the-population-of-atheists-and-agnostics-is-shrinking/ Across the Asia Pacific, the population of atheists and agnostics is shrinking]</ref>}}
== Nones and the moniker of spiritual, but not religious ==
== Nones and the moniker of spiritual, but not religious ==