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Synopsis:
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. God is Back shines a bright light on this huge, hidden world of faith, from televangelism in California to house churches in China. Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals assumed that modernization would kill religion - and that religious America is an oddity. But, as this book argues, America is becoming the norm. Above all, twenty-first century US religion is fuelled by an emphasis on competition and a personal, customer-driven approach to salvation. As market forces reshape the world, the tools of evangelism are now spreading everywhere. The global rise of faith will have a dramatic and far-reaching impact on our century. Its destabilizing effects can already be seen far from Iraq o