Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals have assumed that modernization would kill religion, and that religious America is an oddity. This title argues that religion and modernity can thrive together, and that the American way of religion is becoming the norm.

America, argue John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, award winning journalists at The Economist, has always been a conservative country; but over the past 50 years it has built up a radical conservative movement unlike any other country.

How the Global rise of Faith is Changing the World. As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. As this book shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model of personal, customer-driven, aggressively marketed religion.

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A unique history of Britain's most influential invention - from the East India Company to Enron