Reading List of Relevant Articles

18. ‘The Religious Will Inherit the Earth?’: Demography, Religion and Politics

Required:

Longman, Philip. 2005. The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to do About it (New York, N.Y.: Basic Books), chs. 4 and 6- [o/o]

Greeley, A. 2001. ‘The demographic imperative in religious change in the United States,’ American Journal of Sociology, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 468-500 – JSTOR

Adsera, A. 2005. Religion and Changes in Family-size Norms in Developed Countries, IZA (University of Chicago: Population Research Center), presented at 2005 APSA meetings – available electronically

Recommended:

*Adsera, A. 2005. ‘Marital
Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain,’ IZA Discussion Paper
1399 (University of Chicago: Population Research Center)

*Wattenberg, Ben. 2005. Fewer: How the New Demography of
Depopulation will Shape our Future (Chicago: Ivan R.
Dee), introduction

*Weiner, Myron and Sharon Stanton Russell (eds). 2001. Demography and National Security (New York: Berghahn Books), esp. ch. 12 (Islam & West) and conclusion

Van de Kaa, Dirk. 2001. ‘Postmodern fertility preferences: from changing value orientation to new fertility behaviour,’ Population and Development Review, vol. 27, pp. 290-331

*Norris, Pippa and Ron Inglehart. 2005. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge: CUP)

Sander, W. 1992. ‘Catholicism and the Economics of Fertility,’ Population Studies 46, p.477-489.

*Simons, John. 1980. ‘Reproductive behaviour as religious practice’, in C. Hohn and R. Mackensen (eds.), Determinants of Fertility Trends: Theories Re-Examined (Liège: Ordina), pp. 133-45

Lesthaeghe, R. and J. Surkyn. 1988. ‘Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change,’Population and Development Review 14 (1): 1-45.

Fukuyama, Francis. 1992. The End of History and the Last Man (Hamish Hamilton, London)

Hirschman, C. 2002. ‘Population and Society: Historical Trends and Future Prospects,’ unpublished paper

USA

*Church Central. 2003. ‘Survey finds church attendance, party affiliation closely linked’, Church Central, 1 Dec <http://www.churchcentral.com/nw/s/template/Article.html/id/17590>

*Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
2006. Religion and Public Life: A
Faith-Based Partisan Divide, special report, (Washington, DC: Pew Center, January 2006 )

*Hout, M. and Claude Fischer. 2002. ‘Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations,’ American Sociological Review, vol. 67, no. 2 (April), pp. 165-90 – [e journals]

Williams, L.B. and B.G. Zimmer. 1990. ‘The Changing Influence of Religion on US Fertility: Evidence from Rhode Island,’ Demography 27 (3): 475-481.

Roof, Wade Clark and William McKinney. 1987. American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press)