Monthly Archives: January 2011

American Grace cited in USA Today piece on views toward Muslims

January 28, 2011
By tomsander
American Grace cited in USA Today piece on views toward Muslims

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Excerpt:

The Qureshi family marches down a suburban Washington street in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.

Mustafa Qureshi, a Cub Scout, holds an American flag and his sister, Aisha, joins in reciting King’s “I Have…

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Putnam speaks with Duke Univ.’s Faith & Leadership Program about American Grace

January 19, 2011
By tomsander
Putnam speaks with Duke Univ.’s Faith & Leadership Program about American Grace

Excerpt of interview with American Grace co-author Robert Putnam:

Q: What’s your outlook about American society in “Bowling Alone”?

In “Bowling Alone” we were recounting the fact that many forms of social capital, many of which had been created…

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TIMES Higher Ed Supplement: A Nation’s Saving Grace

January 14, 2011
By tomsander

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Jon Marcus in the TIMES Higher Ed Supplement writes:

Catholics in the Northeast, Protestants in the Midwest, Christian evangelicals in the South, with isolated pockets of Jews, Mormons, Muslims and Buddhists: from the outside…

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Marvin Olasky reviews American Grace in World magazine

January 14, 2011
By tomsander

Marvin Olasky reviews American Grace in World Magazine

Robert Putnam, famous for his decade-old book Bowling Alone, now co-authors a massive work with the subtitle “How Religion Divides and Unites Us”—and the divisions are so clear…

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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life interviews David Campbell

January 10, 2011
By tomsander

Excerpt of conversation with David Campbell:

Before, I get to the uniting half of our subtitle  , I want to talk a little bit about how religion has divided us as a…

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Read David Campbell interview with Time and Seasons

January 10, 2011
By tomsander

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Calling American Grace a “page turner” and the “most comprehensive and significant sociological examination of religion in America to be published in decades, and perhaps ever”, Time and Seasons interviewed American Grace co-author David…

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