In How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization, leading cultural critic Mary
Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion
in the Western world. The conventional wisdom is that the West first
experienced religious decline, followed by the decline of the family.
Eberstadt, however, marshals an array of research, from historical data
on family decline in pre-Revolutionary France to contemporary popular
culture both in the United States and Europe, showing that the reverse
has also been true -- the undermining of the family has further
undermined Christianity itself.
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