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God is back : how the global revival of faith is changing the world / John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.

by Micklethwait, John.

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New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

Religion and sociology.

Religion and sociology -- United States.

United States -- Religion.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008050021-d.html

9781594202131 :

405 p. ; 25 cm.

On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century--or even tried to stamp it out--are now run by avowedly religious leaders. This book examines this new world, from exorcisms in São Paulo to religious skirmishing in Nigeria, to televangelism in California and house churches in China. Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals have assumed that modernization would kill religion--and that religious America is an oddity. As these authors argue, religion and modernity can thrive together, and America is becoming the norm. The failure of communism and the rise of globalism helped spark the global revival, but, above all, 21st century religion is being fueled by a very American emphasis on competition and a customer-driven approach to salvation, and its destabilizing effects can already be seen far from Iraq or the World Trade Center.--From publisher description.

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