Two Economist writers show how and why religion is booming around the world and reveal its vast effects on the global economy, politics, and more On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century—or even tried to stamp it out—are now run by avowedly religious leaders. ...(展开全部)

Two Economist writers show how and why religion is booming around the world and reveal its vast effects on the global economy, politics, and more On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century—or even tried to stamp it out—are now run by avowedly religious leaders. ...(展开全部)

A landmark examination of the resurgence of faith around the globe The Editor in Chief of The Economist and its Lexington columnist show how the global rise of religion will dramatically impact our century in God Is Back . Contrary to the popular assumption that modernism would lead to the rejection of faith, American-style evangelism has sparked a global revival. On the ...(展开全部)

On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging all over the world. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century, or even tried to stamp it out, are now run by avowedly religious leaders, and the destabilising effects of religion can be seen far from Iraq or the ruins of the World Trade Centre. Formerly secular conflicts like...(展开全部)

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 "God is Back" shows, for better or for worse, faith is on the increase - fuelled by an American-style model of personal, customer-driven, aggressively marketed religion. Shining a light on this huge, hidden world of faith, from Califor...(展开全部)

W. H. 奥登W. H. Auden 英国诗人、散文家、剧作家，被公认为叶芝与T. S. 艾略特之后二十世纪最重要的英语诗人。他青年时期就蜚声英国文坛，与斯蒂芬·斯彭德、路易斯·麦克尼斯、塞西尔·戴- 刘易斯、克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德等形成“奥登一代”，影响深远。代表作有组诗《在战争时期》，长诗《给拜伦勋爵的信》《暂时》《海与镜》《焦虑的年代》，诗集《看，异乡人》《下一次》《双重人》《阿喀琉斯的盾牌》，散文集《染匠之手》等。 【译者简介】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当...(展开全部)

汤姆·奇弗斯（Tom Chivers） 著名科普作者、出版人，他擅长解释复杂理论在日常生活中的实际应用，因而成为了科学写作领域广受欢迎的作家之一。2018年、2020年两次获得皇家统计学会卓越奖；2021年荣获英国科学作家协会的年度科学记者奖。

汤姆·奇弗斯（Tom Chivers） 著名科普作者、出版人，他擅长解释复杂理论在日常生活中的实际应用，因而成为了科学写作领域广受欢迎的作家之一。2018年、2020年两次获得皇家统计学会卓越奖；2021年荣获英国科学作家协会的年度科学记者奖。

China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'. Is there any truth to...(展开全部)

Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)