Book Review - God is Back: How The Global Rise of Faith is Changing The World
T it relates to the diminishing role of religion in the working of the social system. Some interpret this as the end of the road for religion and even placed their prediction within different time frames. Ironically, religion has outlived them all. This has led Peter Berger, a renowned sociologist, to recant the secularization thesis, on which he rode to the height of his career. This caused a great deal of furor in his discipline. Whichever way, the return of religion on the public scene, with the iconic Iranian revolution in 1979, shocked social analysts.Consequently, many books have been written to account for the return of religion to global discourse despite its complete dismissal. Prominent among these are Martin Marty and Scott Appleby's edited 5 volume Chicago project on Fundamentalism, Bruce Lawrence's Defender of God and Gilles Kepel's Revenge of God, among others.
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