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A decline of Christian affiliation in the Western world has been observed in the decades since the end of World War II.While most countries in the Western world were historically almost exclusively Christian, the post-World War II era has seen developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities shifting towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith ...
Medieval world religions. World religions of the present day established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world; Buddhist missions to East Asia; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent; the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of ...
In that book, Berger argued that secularization theory has been "falsified", [15] though in a 2015 article said that it "was not completely mistaken". [4] He acknowledges that his original use of the term, referring merely to "the continuing strong presence of religion in the modern world", was "a bit sloppy". [4]
Postchristianity [8] is the loss of the primacy of the Christian worldview in public affairs, especially in the Western world where Christianity had previously flourished, in favor of alternative worldviews such as secularism, [9] nationalism, [10] environmentalism, [11] neopaganism, [12] and organized (sometimes militant [13]) atheism; [14] as well as other ideologies that are no longer ...
The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 7,000 years old. [1] A lack of written records results in most of the knowledge of pre-historic religion being derived from archaeological records and other indirect sources, and from suppositions. Much pre-historic religion is subject to continued debate.
First Baptist's pastor, Ryan Burge, spends much of his time as a researcher documenting the dramatic decline in religious affiliation in recent decades. Burge has witnessed the reality of his ...
[533] [534] It is the world's largest religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers constituting around 31.2% of the world's population. [ 470 ] [ 466 ] [ 535 ] In 2000, approximately one-quarter of all Christians worldwide were part of Pentecostalism and its associated movements. [ 536 ]
In AD 333, the number of Egyptian bishops is estimated to be just under 100; the Christianisation of the Roman Empire itself, and edicts by Christian emperors in the third and fourth centuries AD compounded the decline, and the last known inscription [16] in hieroglyphics (regarded by some as a symbol of the decline of the religion itself due ...