As I noted, the simplest explanation for the complete absence of this from the author's thesis is that - like the authorities with whom UK Pagans have argued over official recognition - he cannot recognise something as a religion if it doesn't have such signifiers as a Holy Book, a prophet (preferably long dead) and a priestly hierarchy.
And yet he mentions Hinduism from the start - and then just lets it go..


So, yes, in terms of the historic faiths, religion is being rationalised away, and it is highly likely that in a few generations European Muslims too will treat the faith of their fathers as just a nostalgic tradition like the Church of England. And yet, it's exactly the people at the cutting edge of materialist rationalism, the highly educated, the IT guys and engineers and technical writers and the like, who are most likely to have a shrine to the Triple Goddess in their living room or a besom by the front door. If it is an evolutionary process, then evolution, as any biologist could have told the author, is a more complicated business than a simple trend from "primitive" to "advanced."
That to me is one of the most important points: evolution is not something that gets better all the time - only different, according to circumstances.

But and interesting idea, nonetheless..