Does secularization even exist?
What is the conventional story line about how the West lost God? What are the problems with it?
Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part one: the empirical links among marriage, childbearing, and religiosity
Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part two: snapshots of the demographic record, or, How fundamental changes in family formation have accompanied the decline of Christianity in the West
Circumstantial evidence for the "family factor", part three: because the "family factor" explains problems that existing theories of secularization do not explain, including what is known as "American exceptionalism"
Assisted religious suicide: how some churches participated in their own downfall by ignoring the family factor
Putting all the pieces together: toward an alternative anthropology of Christian belief
The future of faith and family: the case for pessimism
The future of Christianity and the family: the case for optimism
Conclusion: why does any of this matter?
Epilogue: a reflection on what Nietzsche and his intellectual heirs missed, and why they might have missed it.
