Are views on Mormons improving?

February 9, 2011
Are views on Mormons improving?

Mormon Missionary; Flickr photo by hoveringdog

Excerpt of Washington Post piece citing American Grace co-author David Campbell:

When Mitt Romney ran for president three years ago, calls from reporters came pouring into the public affairs office at the Church…

Read more »

American Grace cited in USA Today piece on views toward Muslims

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

Flickr photo by RonnAshore

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…

Read more »

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

January 19, 2011
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…

Read more »

TIMES Higher Ed Supplement: A Nation’s Saving Grace

January 14, 2011

Flickr photo by waterDeTuinkabouter

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…

Read more »

Marvin Olasky reviews American Grace in World magazine

January 14, 2011

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…

Read more »

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life interviews David Campbell

January 10, 2011

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…

Read more »

Read David Campbell interview with Time and Seasons

January 10, 2011

Flickr photo by Talke Photography

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…

Read more »

Putnam Discusses “American Grace” on Tavis Smiley

December 21, 2010

“The so called culture war – the notion that Americans are deeply divided and hate each other across religious lines – is a vast exaggeration and a kind of a fun-house mirror that suggests that we are in two…

Read more »