Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?

From FORA.tv: Eric Kaufmann is a political scientist and author of the recently published Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Unfortunately, the book is not available until May, 2011 in the US.

With all the current talk about the revival of religion, political scientist Eric Kaufmann takes a look at the statistics and muses that if demography is any guide, the world over the next half century will become much more religious and much more conservative.

Eric Kaufmann is a writer, researcher and teacher of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History and The Rise and Fall of Anglo America.

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