June 05, 2009

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God Is BackHow the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the WorldJohn Micklethwait and Adrian WooldridgePenguin Press, $27.95, 416 pp.

David Martin

Good journalism needs to be fast paced and colorful, and to base its broad-brush generalizations on vivid examples and stories. You need a strong thesis. Too many qualifications and attempts at careful analysis blur the outline and hold up the action. One way to get around this is to sell your product with startling figures and projections and then slip in a warning about the u (...)


 

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about the writer

David Martin is emeritus professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and fellow of the British Academy. Among his many books is Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America (Blackwell).

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