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This is the best reporting I've seen on our study of global religious decline: archive.ph/wRa5N. Alas, if you don't read Dutch, you have to access @mkeulemans.bsky.social's fine work via a translation tool. You should do so because it's an important story!

Our study: nature.com/articles/s41...
Overal is religie op haar retour – ook in islamitische landen
Niet alleen God, ook Allah, Boeddha en eigenlijk álle opperwezens zijn op weg naar de uitgang. Een opmerkelijke, nieuwe analyse laat zien hoe mensen niet alleen in het Westen het geloof afschudden. ‘W...
www.volkskrant.nl
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Below is my new post about our Three Stages of Religious Decline paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

We argue that a similar process of decline affects countries on every populated continent, including countries in which Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism is the largest religion.

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How religion declines around the world
A country’s religious affiliation tends to decline in three transitional stages that unfold across generations, a new paper using Center data proposes.
www.pewresearch.org
September 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM