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Emilio Gentile has gained an impressive reputation as a historian of the sacralization of politics in Italy. In God's Democracy he turns his attention to American religion after 11 September, drawing on a historical narrative that encompasses civil religion, divine providence and manifest destiny. The book has been superbly translated by Jennifer Pudney and Suzanne Janus and reads like a novel. Originally written in Italian, and first published in 2006, the book has in this version been updated to March 2008, although most of the action is focussed on the three years following the attacks on Washington, DC and New York.
The book begins by providing a politico-religious background to 11 September, before contextualizing 9/11 in...