https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/03/12/the-age-of-faith/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:18:21 -0400<![CDATA[Philip Jenkins, a professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University says the remarkable thing about the recent clashes between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria is that they are not remarkable. In a process largely unnoticed in the West, billions of people in Asia and Africa have swapped out their indigenous faiths for either Christianity or Islam. And to an even greater astonishment of Western intellectuals most have chosen Christianity. Now the equalization of numbers has caused a fault line to appear through the Third World at about the tenth degree of latitude where the two aggregations face each other &#8220;at daggers drawn&#8221;.]]>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:34 -0500<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2010/03/12/the-age-of-faith-n189668