Not A Scary Movie: Bush Links “War on Terror” With Religious “Third Awakening̶

George W. Bush turns the presidential podium into a pulpit and declares that a “Third Awakening” of religious devotion is sweeping the United States, partly because of the war on terror. Two previous &ldquoawakenings” took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth century as many Americans were swept up in a torrent of public religiosity, hysteria and religious gibberish. In a world marked by Islamic Jihadism, does the West need more – or less – religion?