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About the Author
Peter L. Berger is professor of sociology and theology, and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, at Boston University. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity (2003), The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics (1999), and The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967).