Understanding religions as competing platforms: what has happened to religion in the world since the second world war?

Over the last 65 years there has been a large rise in the share of Muslims in the world population and a decline in the share of Christians, but the big story is not one about the former growing at the expense of the latter, since the movement in their relative shares reflects almost entirely the different demographics of the populations in which the two religions were more strongly implanted at the beginning of the postwar era. Instead, the story is about local and folk religions all over the world being replaced by organisations representing one of the two major global religious identities. This lecture will look at how religions compete with each other in the global and local marketplaces.

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La 17 e 18esima edizione sono state organizzate in collaborazione con Gruppo Sole 24 Ore.