God Is Back : How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
by Micklethwait, John (Author); Wooldridge, Adrian (Author)Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2010-03-30
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary
Two writers for "Economist" magazine show how and why religion is booming around the world and reveal its vast effects on the global economy, politics, and more.
Author Biography
John Micklethwait is the editor in chief of The Economist.
Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist's Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist. Together they have authored four books, including The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.
Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist's Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist. Together they have authored four books, including The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Two Roads to Modernity | |
| The European Way: The Necessity of Atheism | p. 31 |
| The American Way I: The Chosen Nation (1607-1900) | p. 55 |
| The American Way II: Surviving the Acids of Modernity (1880-2000) | p. 79 |
| Bush, Blair, Obama and the God Gap (2000-2008) | p. 109 |
| God's Country | |
| Pray, Rabbit, Pray: Soulcraft and the American Dream | p. 143 |
| The God Business: Capitalism and the Rise of Religion | p. 170 |
| Empires of the Mind: God and the Intellectuals | p. 192 |
| God's Empire | |
| Exporting America's God | p. 213 |
| All That Is Holy Is Profaned: Exporting American Materialism | p. 243 |
| God's Wars | |
| The Bible Versus the Koran: The Battle of the Books and the Future of Two Faiths | p. 265 |
| The New Wars of Religion | p. 297 |
| The Culture Wars Go Global | p. 322 |
| Conclusion: Learning to Live with Religion | p. 352 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 374 |
| Notes | p. 376 |
| Index | p. 392 |
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