Do you think there will be a religious revival in the west?

[Kingpoleon]

The secularization thesis in sociology is largely considered outdated, and most serious sociologists have either moved to a complexity model or to a desecularization hypothesis.

[Kingpoleon]

Nope!

In other shocking news, libertarians still don’t understand sociological trends.

[Kingpoleon]

And sociologists do?

I’m hardly an arch defender of sociology, but yes, sociologists have refined their models & correctly predicted religious trends.

I recommend On Secularization: Towards a Revised General Theory by Martin, A Secular Age by Taylor, and A Rumor of Angels by Berger. The second is pretty complicated and not intrinsically as ontologically sociological as the other two.

[Kingpoleon]

And will this be on the final, or is that non-cumulative?

If you want to get at the truth as to whether or not religion will increase in the general American populace, as it already is among scientists and other small groups, then you should study the sociology of it. If you don’t? Then keep on randomly saying “No!” to questions like this, but most atheists have made a habit of chanting “It is always wrong, at every time and in every place, to believe something without sufficient evidence.”