Posts Tagged ‘ conservatives ’

CNN: Putnam/Campbell discussing latest 2012 religion and politics findings

February 24, 2012
By tomsander

Not true historically that God was a Democrat or a Republican.  We’ve lived through an unusual period where there was too close of an association of politics and religion.  And political leaders and religious leaders have paid a price…

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Putnam Discusses “American Grace” on Tavis Smiley

December 21, 2010
By tomsander

“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…

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Robert Putnam discusses American Grace on “Forum Truth”

December 3, 2010
By tomsander

“Historically, only a small percentage of Americans (5-7%) when you asked them whether they are Protestant or Catholic or whatever, said they had no religion at all; we call them the ‘nones’… Over the last 20 years, that figure…

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The Economist: Evangelicals Looking for a new Leader

December 2, 2010
By tomsander

Glenn Beck at Lincoln Memorial-photo from Wikimedia Commons

The Economist’s story, explains how US evangelicals, in a troubled time are looking for a more charismatic and likable leader than Glenn Beck.  Among the troubling evidence for evangelicals are American…

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How to restore Catholic vitality to Americans

November 17, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt:

“The bishops are failing to teach the fullness of the Catholic faith to the church as well….Robert Putnam and David Campbell’s recently released American Grace find(s) that young people who have come of age in…

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The “Almost Christian” teens

November 5, 2010
By tomsander

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American Grace has extensive discussion of the “young nones”: those who have left evangelical churches largely because they disagree with the conservative politics, not because they don’t believe in God.  American Grace posits what this…

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Houston Chronicle: Q&A with Putnam on American Grace

October 29, 2010
By tomsander

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Robert Putnam, co-author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, recently spoke with Houston Chronicle reporter Jeannie Kever, and among other things voiced his surprise with Americans’ tolerance of those with different religious…

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Macleans’ Positive Review of American Grace

October 29, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Danny Hammontree

According to Macleans review, Putnam and Campbell in American Grace “get where they’re going all right, and they turn up a lot of fascinating information about America’s ever-evolving religious life along the way.”

Excerpt:

“…Americans…

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NY Times: Robert Wright on Islamophobia and Homophobia

October 27, 2010
By tomsander

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Robert Wright in a NY Times Op-Ed discusses whether the significant rise of tolerance for gays in the US over the last generation is a road map for Muslims.  Excerpt:

Happily, there’s a new book that…

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Similarities of Evangelicals and Mormons

October 25, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Roy Stead

Excerpt:

As a group, they tend to be conservative, church-going, Republican. They believe it’s important to share their faith in Jesus – often on overseas mission trips – and call themselves champions of…

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