Religion's Sudden Decline av Ronald F. (Professor Emeritus of Political Science Professor Emeritus of Political Science University of Michigan) I

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<strong>Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?</strong><p/>The world is becoming less religious. Since 2007, there has been a pervasive decline in religious belief and most of the world''s people now say that God is less important in their lives than they said He was in the quarter century before 2007. The American public showed the most dramatic shift of all. The United States, which for many years stood as a highly religious outlier among the world''s high-income countries, now ranks as the 12th least religious country for which data are available. Many factors contributed to this dramatic worldwide shift, but as Inglehart shows, certain ones stand out. For centuries, virtually all major religions encouraged women to stay home and produce as many children as possible; and they sternly discouraged divorce, abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. These norms wer