TUESDAY, APRIL 14, NYC
In Print, featuring John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
Tuesday, April 14
6.30-7.45pm
This series features James F. Hoge, Jr., editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair of Foreign Affairs; chairman of the International Center for Journalists; and CGA advisory board member, in conversation with leading journalists and authors. Books will be available for sale.
Both John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge were educated at Oxford and work for the Economist. John Micklethwait has overseen the magazine’s Los Angeles and New York bureaus and is now its U.S. editor. Adrian Wooldridge has served as West Coast correspondent, social policy correspondent, and management editor, and is currently the Washington, D.C. correspondent. Together, they have coauthored four books.
Religion is surging worldwide, and nations that once swore off faith—or even tried to stamp it out—are now run by avowedly religious leaders. Formerly secular conflicts have taken on a religious cast. Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals have assumed that modernization would kill religion—and that religious America is an oddity. The authors argue that religion and modernity can thrive together. God Is Back shows how the same American ideas that created our unique religious style can be applied to channel the rising tide of faith away from volatility and violence. To register, please send and e-mail to scps.global.affairs@nyu.edu and indicate which event you would like to register for.
