[First §] In 1999, the sociologist Peter Berger noted that: “the world is as furiously religious as it ever was, and in some places more so than ever.” He called the process ‘desecularization. In the same year, The Economist published its millennium issue and included an article entitled ‘God: After a lengthy career, the Almighty recently passed into history. Or did he?’ The reader was informed that the “test will come on Judgment Day, when man, we are told, will meet his maker. Or will it be God meeting his?”