Abstract
The decline of religion, common across the developed world and now evident even in the USA, is not an accident and nor is it the work of committed atheists. It is an unintended consequence of a series of subtle long-run social changes, such as an increase in religious diversity and religion’s loss of social functions and problem-solving expertise. Modernization changes the status and nature of religion in ways that weaken it and make it difficult to pass it successfully from generation to generation. The meaning of such key terms as secularization, secularism, and secularity is clarified, as is the difference between world-affirming and world-rejecting new religions.
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