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God Is Back

How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
John Micklethwait - Author
Adrian Wooldridge - Author

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A landmark examination of the resurgence of faith around the globe

The Editor in Chief of The Economist and its Lexington columnist show how the global rise of religion will dramatically impact our century in God Is Back. Contrary to the popular assumption that modernism would lead to the rejection of faith, American-style evangelism has sparked a global revival. On the street and in the corridors of power the authors shine a bright light on a vast yet until now hidden world of religion.

Twenty-first-century faith is being fueled by a very American emphasis on competition and a customer-driven attitude toward salvation. Revealing how the religion boom is destabilizing politics and the global economy, God Is Back concludes by showing how the same American ideas that created our unique religious style can be applied to channel the rising tide of faith away from volatility and violence.

God Is Back Part One. Two Roads To Modernity

One. The European Way: The Necessity of Atheism
Two. The American Way I: The Chosen Nation (1607-1900)
Three. The American Way II: Surviving the Acids of Modernity (1880-2000)
Four. Bush, Blair, Obama and the God Gap (2000-2008)

Part Two. God's Country

Five. Pray, Rabbit, Pray: Soulcraft and the American Dream
Six. The God Business: Capitalism and the Rise of Religion
Seven. Empires of the Mind: God and the Intellectuals

Part Three. God's Empire

Eight. Exporting America's God
Nine. All That Is Holy Is Profaned: Exporting American Materialism

Part Four. God's Wars

Ten. The Bible Versus the Koran: The Battle of the Books and the Future of Two Faiths
Eleven. The New Wars of Religion
Twelve. The Culture Wars Go Global
Conclusion. Learning to Live with Religion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index