'Earthly Powers,' by Michael Burleigh - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times

'Earthly Powers,' by Michael Burleigh - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times: "While 19th-century Protestant America was searching for God by immersing itself in the Bible, experiencing one Great Awakening after another, Europe entered an age of anxiety over the prospect of living in a disenchanted cosmos. Was modern man progressively recovering the powers he once projected onto gods, building for himself a fully human world?"