Book Review - 'God Is Back,' by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge - Review - NYTimes.com

Book Review - 'God Is Back,' by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge - Review - NYTimes.com: "The Americans led the way by becoming both “the quintessentially modern country” and a very devout one, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge write in their new book, “God Is Back,” and most of the world has followed that model. In rich countries and poorer ones, democratic and undemocratic, primarily Islamic and primarily Christian — everywhere, basically, except Europe — devotion to God has remained surprisingly robust.

“The very things that were supposed to destroy religion — democracy and markets, technology and reason — are combining to make it stronger,” write Mickle�thwait, editor in chief of The Economist, and Wooldridge, the magazine’s Washington bureau chief, who together have written previous books about globalization and American conservatism, two �similarly sweeping topics"