Editing Sociology of religion (section)

===Other perspectives===

[[BBC News]] reported on a study by physicists and mathematicians that attempted to use mathematical modelling ([[nonlinear dynamics]]) to predict future religious orientations of populations. The study suggests that religion is headed towards "extinction" in various nations where it has been on the decline: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. The model considers not only the changing number of people with certain beliefs, but also attempts to assign utility values of a belief in each nation.<ref name="Palmer">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197|title='Extinction threat' to religion|first=Jason|last=Palmer|work=BBC News|date=22 March 2011|access-date=2 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422050308/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197|archive-date=22 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|arxiv=1012.1375|title=A mathematical model of social group competition with application to the growth of religious non-affiliation|first1=Daniel M.|last1=Abrams|first2=Haley A.|last2=Yaple|first3=Richard J.|last3=Wiener|date=16 August 2011|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=107|issue=8|pages=088701|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.088701|pmid=21929211|bibcode=2011PhRvL.107h8701A}}</ref>

[[Thomas Luckmann]] maintains that the sociology of religion should cease preoccupations with the traditional and institutionalized forms of religion. Luckmann points instead to the "religious problem" which is the "problem of individual existence." This is the case as with the advent of modernity, religious meaning making has shifted more into the individual domain.<ref name=dawson11/>{{rp|82}}