 Historically, the majority of Christians have lived in Western nations, once called Christendom, and often conceptualized as "European Christian" civilization.According to a 2010 study by the Pew Research Center, Christianity remains the dominant religion in the Western World, where 70% are Christians.A postchristian society is to a large extent a profane society in which Christianity is no longer the dominant civil religion but has gradually assumed values, culture, and worldviews that are not necessarily Christian (and also may not necessarily reflect any world religion's standpoint or may represent a combination of either several religions or none).