From Globalization and God – Part II: “A longer-term and more extensive view [than popular media exposes] suggests that present-day displays of religious fervor are a result of the successful process of secularism, not a sign of its decline. What we are witnessing is the rearguard reaction to the threat of modernity and globalization. It is the position of people who feel they are losing the fight and, in desperation, are returning to ‘traditional” belief’ – only in this case, tradition in religion has been supplanted by radical reformulation, as also happened in earlier episodes.” This may sound familiar, since it was the argument I made back in 2004, in “Got God?: Religion and Spirituality in the Postmodern Mind,” where I wrote, “Fundamentalism is merely the death rattle of traditional religion in the U.S.”