God's Continent

I've just finished reading Philip Jenkins' latest book, "God's Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis". I can't recommend it highly enough. It responds very directly to a lot of the scaremongering about Europe becoming Islamised (the "Eurabia" fear). This fear is played out in cause celebres such as the Olympic mega-mosque. Jenkins goes beyond the rhetoric and reveals the inevitable changes going on within Islam itself and the  exciting and hopeful signs of religious vigour within public life across Europe. If you're still hankering for a monocultural Christendom Europe, this book will not be to your taste. If you welcome the challenge proferred by the vigoruous religious witness of Muslims, (and Christians from Africa and Eastern Europe!) then this book is set to be the starting point for any serious discussion of the place of faith in our post-colonial continent.