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Upcoming and Current:

• Upcoming Book: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (London: Profile Books, March 2010)

• 4 March 2010, 7pm Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London: Appearance at Jewish Book Week, on panel with Dominique Moisi and John Kampfner on panel on 'Threats to our Democracy'

• 10-13 March 2010: 'Sacralization by Stealth?: The Religious Consequences of Low Fertility in Europe', for conference on "Causes, Consequences & Responses to Low Fertility,” hosted by the Social Trends Institute, Barcelona

• Upcoming edited book: Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions, edited by J. A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010), forthcoming

• (with V. Skirbekk), "'Go Forth and Multiply': the Politics of Religious Demography" in Political Demography: identity, conflict and institutions, edited by J. A. Goldstone, Eric Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010), forthcoming

Notable Past Items:

• 17 Oct, 2009: “Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist”, Verso Book Launch Debate on Ernst Bloch's Atheism in Christianity, Saturday 17th October 2009, 3pm – 5pm, Room B35, Birkbeck College  London (podcasted event)

• research mentioned in 'A Nightmare for Richard Dawkins: statistics show that atheists are a dying breed', Ed West, Daily Telegraph (UK), 18 September 2009

• 'The Return of Economic Nationalism’, Providence Journal, June 20, 2009

• 'The Changing Face of Israel' (co-authored with R. Cincotta), Foreign Policy (web exclusive), June 2009

• 'The Global War for Souls', a review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 'God is Back', Prospect, June 2009

• ‘The Role of Islam in the Re-Sacralization of Europe’, for conference on ‘The Political Future of Muslim Communities in Western Europe: Implications for Western European States in 2030’, National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, May 29, 2009, Washington, DC

• Conference: 'Demography and Security: the Politics of Population Change', Weatherhead Center, Harvard, organized by Monica Toft, Jack Goldstone and myself, May 7-8, 2009

• My Book, The Orange Order (Oxford U. Press) appeared in paperback, April 2009

• Article on the legacy of the late Samuel Huntington, ‘The Meaning of Huntington’, in Prospect magazine, February 2009

• My research mentioned in Anthony Gottlieb's article, 'Faith Equals Fertility', Intelligent Life (Economist), Winter 2008

• ‘Peaceful Xenophobes’, Prospect, November 2008

• Commentary on my November 2006 Prospect/Newsweek article, 'Breeding for God' at Richard Dawkins.net

• Winner of Political Studies Association 2008 Richard Rose Prize: 'awarded to a younger scholar who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British politics (including Northern Ireland), through the publication of books and articles'

• My Prospect article was printed in abridged form as 'Faith's Comeback' in the November 7-13 issue of Newsweek International edition

• My article, 'Breeding for God' was published in the November 2006 issue of Prospect as the cover story

• 'The End of Secularisation in Europe' on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed' Programme, Wednesday, 4 October. To hear the programme live, click on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20061004.shtml  or download directly here.

Other Past Items

Main Research Interests:

• Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Religiosity, Fertility and Politics

• The Political Demography of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Religion

• Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

• The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States

• Orangeism

• Canadian Identity

• Comparative Nationalism and Ethnicity

• Cosmopolitanism and Universalism

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