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1 Apr 2026 Conversations with Tyler Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
“If I were a Buddhist leader, if I were a religious leader, as opposed to just a religious person, I’d be thinking about the opportunity for religious revival, and I think, quite frankly, we’re due for one.”
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- 1 Apr 2026
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…It’s quite a sharp decline, right? Especially Korea, Japan, China. Yes. No. I think that probably we Catholics are giving the Buddhists a run for their money. According to Pew this year, for every 100 people who enter the Catholic Church, 840 left. That’s a pretty sharp decline. I think this has a lot to do with the general urbanization, technologization, and the secularization of especially younger cohorts today. If I were a Buddhist leader, if I were a religious leader, as opposed to just a religious person, I’d be thinking about the opportunity for religious revival, and I think, quite frankly, we’re due for one. Why, for you, Catholicism rather than Orthodox Christianity?…
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