ABSTRACT
Why has globalization brought about this attitude? After all, the leading engine o f the process is the United States, which in many ways is a deeply religious society, and whose inhabitants would be shocked to learn that their main cultural and economic products are believed to lead to the spread o f atheism and materialism. It is certainly not the case that the global products include subtle references to Christianity, for example, and so are designed surreptitiously to convert Muslims. Neither do they contain any direct anti-religious message or advocacy o f atheism, and were they to do any o f these things they would be less dangerous. What they do is to present a picture o f the world in which God is
3 Oliver Leaman (1999) ‘Nursi’s place in the Ihya' tradition’, The Muslim World (LXXXIX), pp. 314-24.
