Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century

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Eric Kaufmann, reader in politics, Birkbeck College, University of London

Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century

Drawing on extensive demographic research, and considering questions of multiculturalism, nationalism and terrorism, political analyst Eric Kaufmann visits the RSA to examine the implications of the decline in liberal secularism as religious conservatism rises – and to ask: what will this mean for the future of western modernity?

Respondent: Dominic Lawson, a writer and commentator, noted for his robust and iconoclastic opinions on political and social issues.

Chair: Laurie Taylor, writer, broadcaster and presenter, BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed.

In association with New Humanist.

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