Why God is Winning

Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft in Foreign Policy

Far from stamping out religion, modernization has spawned a new generation of savvy and technologically adept religious movements, including Evangelical Protestantism in America, "Hindutva" in India, Salafist and Wahhabi Islam in the Middle East, Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America, and Opus Dei and the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church. The most dynamic religiosity today is not so much "old-time religion" as it is radical, modern, and conservative. Today’s religious upsurge is less a return of religious orthodoxy than an explosion of "neo-orthodoxies."