I'm not sure America is leading the transition. A few years ago, a tour guide in Norway told me that most of the people going to a church were immigrants.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov