Posts Tagged ‘ harvard ’

New York Times’ strong review of American Grace

October 8, 2010
By tomsander

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The following are excerpts from the New York Times‘ review of American Grace which called the book “a big multi-faceted work” “urgently relevant” and deserving “the attention of everyone concerned about America’s future cohesion”:

At first…

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NPR: Turning Religious Polarization into American Grace

October 2, 2010
By tomsander

American Grace co-authors David Campbell and Robert Putnam were on NPR’s Weekend Edition for a roughly 10 minute interview with Scott Simon.

Read about or listen to the interview here where Campbell and Putnam describe America’s religious tolerance, the increased…

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Another strong review for American Grace

September 30, 2010
By tomsander

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Publisher’s Week recommends American Grace:

This massive book eschews the narrow, monographic approach to sociological study in favor of an older, more useful model: the sweeping chronicle of national change over time. Harvard professor Putnam…

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Putnam quoted in USA Today: Aunt Susan Trumps Theology

September 28, 2010
By tomsander

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The Sunday USA Today Faith & Reason column by Cathy Lynn Grossman highlighted three of the American Grace findings that they found most interesting (from Robert Putnam and David Campbell’s talk to the Religious…

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Opinion piece about American Grace talk at Colby College

September 24, 2010
By tomsander

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Joseph R. Reisert (Chairman, Gov. Dept., Colby College) writes about Robert Putnam’s talk about American Grace at Colby and why Putnam is optimistic about future prospects of American religion, despite current frictions between some…

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Strong positive reviews of American Grace from Booklist and Kirkus Reviews

September 15, 2010
By tomsander

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Booklist said of American Grace: “An essential resource for anyone trying to understand twenty-first-century America.” (September 15, 2010 review).  They believe that the section most likely to cause debate in America, explains how religion has…

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Prayer benefits us regardless of religion

May 17, 2010
By tomsander

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Kathleen Parker, of the Washington Post, discusses the recent controversy surrounding Rev. Franklin Graham’s religiously intolerant comments concerning one of the five main Hindu gods, delivered on the National Day of Prayer: ”No elephant with…

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Press Mentions of American Grace Research

May 18, 2009
By tomsander

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Here are some of the news stories over the last several weeks of research by Robert Putnam and David Campbell to appear in American Grace.

Washington Post: Michael Gerson’s syndicated Op-Ed “Religion and Our Civic Behavior”…

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Young Americans dropping out of religion, other American Grace findings by Putnam/Campbell

May 18, 2009
By tomsander

(Saying Grace; Flickr photo by ImCait)

Robert D. Putnam (Harvard) and David Campbell (Notre Dame) recently previewed selected themes from American Grace at the May 2009 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that…

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