God is back : how the global rise of faith is changing the world /: how the global rise of faith is changing the world. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.
• Other Names: Micklethwait, John; Wooldridge, Adrian
• Contents: Introduction -- pt. I.: Two roads to modernity -- The European way: the necessity of atheism -- The American way I: the chosen nation (1607-1900) -- The American way II: surviving the acids of modernity (1880-2000) -- Bush, Blair, Obama and the God gap (2000-2008) -- pt. II.: God's country -- Pray Rabbit, pray: soulcraft and the American dream -- The God business: capitalism and the rise of religion -- Empires of the mind: God and the intellectutals -- pt. III>: God's empire -- Exporting America's God -- All that is holy is profaned: exporting American materialism -- pt. IV.: God's wars -- The Bible versus the Koran: the battle of the books and the future of two faiths -- The new wars of religion -- The culture wars go global -- Learning to live with religion.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Subjects: 306.6; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General; Religion and sociology; Religion -- History; Religion; Religion and sociology; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780241958698; 0241958695
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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