The Recession of Religious Belief

In the 19th century it was more commonly believed that there was a heaven, a world to come. And I think a lot of us, religious or not, hold on to that idea even if we might think rationally that it isn't going to happen. But as religious belief has receded in the West, I wonder how that affects how we live. Now I'm a religious Jew. Judaism does have an afterlife, although a lot of people think it doesn't. It does have an idea of an afterlife, but it's definitely muted relative to Christianity. In the Jewish theology, the afterlife is much less spoken of and there's an enormous focus on this world. The Catholic tradition