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[[File:Birkbeck College, University of London.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|Eric Kaufmann, a professor at [[Birkbeck College, University of London]], using a a wealth of demographic studies, argues that there will be a significant decline of global atheism in the 21st century which will impact the [[Western World]].<ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Eric Kaufmann, Belfer Center, Harvard University/Birkbeck College, University of London]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2011/05/eric-kaufmann-shall-religious-inherit.html Eric Kaufmann: Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/search/label/atheist%20demographics Eric Kaufmann's Atheist Demographic series]</ref><ref>[httphttps://forawww.tvyoutube.com/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth watch?v=VwmgFZsgSo0 Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]</ref>]] '''Eric Kaufmann''' is a professor of politics at BirkbeckCollege, University of London and author. His academic research specialty is how [[demography|demographic]] changes affect religion/irreligion and politics. He was a Fellow in the Religion in International Affairs Program, Belfer Center, Kennedy School, [[Harvard University]], 2008-9. In 2008, he won the Richard Rose Prize of the Political Studies Association for a scholar under 40 years old.<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kaufmann/ Eric Kaufmann - bio at'' Huffington Post'']</ref>

== Academic Eric Kaufmann's academic work and other work ==

Eric Kaufmann is currently leading an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project, Diversity and the White Working Class in England, with Dr. Gareth Harris (who is also of Birkbeck, University of London’s London's Politics department). The project involves a partnership with the think tank [[Demos]], and its Politics of Demography project. The project uses quantitative data and focus groups to examine how the white British ethnic majority is responding to increasing ethnic diversity due to immigration.<ref>[http://www.sneps.net/ Eric Kaufmann's website]</ref>

=== Eric Kaufmann on the rise decline of religious conservatives in the West and in the world secularism globally ===

''See also:'' [[Desecularization]] and [[Atheism and fertility rates]]  On December 23, 2012, Professor Eric Kaufmann who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London wrote:{{cquote|I argue that 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious. On the other hand, the secular West and East Asia has very low fertility and a rapidly aging population. The demographic disparity between the religious, growing global South and the aging, secular global North will peak around 2050. In the coming decades, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back of ethnic change. In addition, those with religious beliefs tend to have higher birth rates than the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white), Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97-of-worlds-population-growth-is.html 97% of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religious], Tuesday, April 30, 2013</ref>}} === Eric Kaufmann on the reversal of secularism in Europe === ''See also:'' [[Secular Europe]] Concerning the future of secularism in Europe, in a paper entitled ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'', Kaufmann wrote: {{cquote|We have performed these unprecedented analyses on several cases. [[Austria]] offers us a window into what the future holds. Its census question on religious affiliation permits us to perform cohort component projections, which show the secular population plateauing by 2050, or as early as 2021 if secularism fails to attract lapsed Christians and new Muslim immigrants at the same rate as it has in the past. (Goujon, Skirbekk et al. 2006). This task will arguably become far more difficult as the supply of nominal Christians dries up while more secularisation-resistant Muslims and committed rump Christians comprise an increasing share of the population.<ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' by Eric Kaufmann]</ref>}} === Eric Kaufmann on the rise of religious conservatives in the West and in the world === ''See also:'' [[Growth of religious fundamentalism]] Kaufmann maintains that: the religious will grow as a percentage of the world's population in the 21st century; the more religious people are, the more children they have; those who are most fervent in their religion - namely [[fundamentalism|fundamentalists]] - have the largest families; most people inherit their faith from their parents, who often innoculate inoculate their children against the arguments of secularists; the cumulative effect of immigration from religious countries, and religious fertility will be to reverse the secularisation process in the Western World (sometime between 2021 and 2050), religious conservatism will triumph over liberal secularism in the 21st century.<ref>[httphttps://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448 ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' - Amazon]</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' by Eric Kaufmann]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2011/05/eric-kaufmann-shall-religious-inherit.html Eric Kaufmann: Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?]</ref><ref>[http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/search/label/atheist%20demographics Eric Kaufmann's Atheist Demographic series]</ref><ref>[http://fora.tv/2010/09/05/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, Australian Broadcasting Corporation]</ref>

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>[httphttps://forawww.tv/2010/09/05youtube.com/Eric_Kaufmann_Shall_the_Religious_Inherit_the_Earth watch?v=6NtvDErEmBY Shall the religious inherit the earth- Festival of Dangerous Ideas - Erik Kaufmann]</ref>

 == Kaufmann on the culture war in America ==In 2010, in his book ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'', Kaufmann wrote concerning the [[culture war]] in the [[United States]]:{{cquote|High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be [[pro-life]]. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.<ref>''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'' by Eric Kaufmann</ref>}} == Kaufmann on the future of evangelical Protestantism in Europe ====

== Eric Kaufmann on the decline of secularism globally culture war in America == In 2010, in his book ''See also:Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth'' , Kaufmann wrote concerning the [[Global atheismculture war]] in the [[United States]] On December 23, 2012, Professor Eric Kaufmann who teaches at Birbeck College, University of London wrote:{{cquote|I argue that 97% of High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the world's population growth is taking place in the developing world, where 95% of people are religioustwentieth century. On the other handIn recent decades, the secular West and East Asia white secularism has very low fertility surged, but Latino and a rapidly aging population. The demographic disparity between the Asian religious, growing global South and immigration has taken up the agingslack, secular global North will peak around 2050keeping secularism at bay. In the coming decadesAcross denominations, the developed world's demand for workers to pay its pensions and work in its service sector will soar alongside the booming supply fertility advantage of young people in the third world. Ergo, we can expect significant immigration to the secular West which will import religious revival on the back fundamentalists of ethnic changeall colours is significant and growing. In additionAfter 2020, those with religious beliefs tend their demographic weight will begin to have higher birth rates than tip the secular population, with fundamentalists having far larger families. The epicentre of these trends will be balance in immigration gateway cities like New York (a third white)the culture wars towards the conservative side, Amsterdam (half Dutch), Los Angeles (28% white), and London, 45% white British.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/04/97ramping up pressure on hot-of-worlds-population-growth-isbutton issues such as abortion.html 97% By the end of the world's population growth is taking place in the developing worldcentury, where 95% three quarters of people are religious], Tuesday, April 30, 2013</ref>}} == Eric Kaufmann on the reversal of secularism in Europe == ''See also:'' America may be [[Secular Europepro-life]] Concerning . Their activism will leap over the future borders of secularism in Europe, in a paper entitled ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'Redeemer Nation', Kaufmann wrote: {{cquote|We have performed these unprecedented analyses on several cases. [[Austria]] offers us a window into what to evangelize the future holdsworld. Its census question on religious affiliation permits us to perform cohort component projectionsAlready, which show the secular population plateauing by 2050, or as early as 2021 if secularism fails to attract lapsed Christians and new Muslim immigrants at rise of the same rate as it World Congress of Families has in the past. (Goujonlaunched a global religious right, Skirbekk et al. 2006). This task will arguably become far more difficult as its arms stretching across the supply of nominal Christians dries up while more secularisation-resistant Muslims and committed rump Christians comprise an increasing share bloody lines of the populationWar on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.<ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf ''Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century'' by Eric Kaufmann]</ref>}}