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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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Washington Post review of American Grace

December 13, 2010
By tomsander

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Excerpt of Washington Post review of American Grace:

Even as a religion reporter, I was surprised by some of the findings in this hefty new book about American religion by political scientists …

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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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Watch Putnam and Campbell on Fox and Friends

November 19, 2010
By tomsander

American Grace authors Robert Putnam and David Campbell discussed the book on Fox and Friends with Gretchen Carlson, November 19, 2010.

The short interview covers how younger Americans are more pro life and yet more tolerant of gays, the remarkable…

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Star Tribune: ‘Grace’ crosses America’s religious divides

November 8, 2010
By tomsander

Here is an excerpt from the piece in which Chuck Leddy calls much of the data in American Grace ‘eye-opening’:

In “Bowling Alone,” Robert Putnam explored America’s burgeoning trend of social isolation. Now Putnam (with co-author David Campbell) …

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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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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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Robert Putnam on PBS NewsHour

October 13, 2010
By tomsander

Robert D. Putnam was interviewed on Monday by Paul Solman of the NewsHour about American Grace and how “Aunt Susan” leads to religious tolerance, our increased religious polarization, the connection of religion to politics, and how America compares to…

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Religiosity matters little for views on environment or immigration

September 20, 2010
By tomsander

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life releases recent findings that the American public’s views on immigration or the environment do not seem sharply shaped by religion. Their findings corroborate findings in American Grace that…

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Moral views fed by disgust?

August 27, 2010
By tomsander

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Drake Bennett has an interesting piece in the Boston Sunday Globe entitled “Ewwwwwwwww!: The surprising moral force of disgust.”  Bennett cites various psychologists and philosophers that moral judgments come neither directly from God,…

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