‣‣‣  In his study Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, Eric Kaufmann of the University of London demonstrates that religious believers tend to have significantly higher birth rates than nonbelievers--and that fundamentalist Christians, Jews, and Muslims generally have more children than less fervent followers. Kaufmann argues that these trends portend a major shift: a historic reversal of the long global move toward secularization. Since secular and fundamentalist agendas often differ, this impending shift is rife with implications for politics in the coming decades, both in the United States and abroad. Will religion transform the world's demography over the next two generations? If so, how?    [Watch Video Highlights]