How the West Lost God
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sophisticated Westerners have assumed for some time that religion would inevitably die. | T |
| Secularization theory works best when one studies the United States. | F |
| Secularization theory argues that people first give up religion and that determines the other decisions of their lives. | T |
| The author argues that family formation is a cause, not a result, of how one views religion. | T |
| In the history of Western Europe it appears that people stopped having children before they were secularized. | T |
| France is a prime example of a country in which people stopped having babies and then stopped being religious afterwards. | T |
| The United States has significantly more children per woman and higher marriage rates than Europe. | T |
| Evangelical Christians have a lower birth rate than most other groups. | F |
| People who are in churches that forbid birth control are more likley to have large families. | F |
| Having children is quite likely to make people more religious. | T |
| Having children pushes people toward an intensity of purpose they may not otherwise have. | T |
| In largely secular Europe men and women are about equally religious. | F |
| Today's low birthrates are a fixture of modern life and are highly unlikely to change. | F |
| The population bomb had turned out to be a dud. | F |
| Modern people have proven that traditional two-parent family has just as many problems as any other type of family formation. | F |
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