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HuffPost: Justus Baird’s advice to Rick Santorum draws on American Grace

March 22, 2012
By tomsander

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Here’s Rabbi Justus Baird’s unsolicited advice to Rick Santorum (kibbutzing) on his campaign strategy in the Huffington Post. Bolded items drawn from American Grace:

Excerpt: I know you’re crazy-campaign-busy…..News about your recent campaign event in Greenwell Springs, La., inspired me to…

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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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Peter Berger on American Grace’s implications for valuable civil religion

December 1, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt:

A few days before Thanksgiving The New York Times carried a brief report about a pre-holiday interfaith breakfast in Westchester County, the affluent suburban area just north of New York City. It was convened by Rabbi Mark…

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Salt Lake City Tribune: Religion divider and uniter in America

November 15, 2010
By tomsander

Photo of American Grace Authors by Louise Kennedy Converse

Excerpt:

American believers used to fight about theology. Catholics against Protestants. Christians against Jews. Mormons, at times, against everyone else.

Today’s battle lines are more political — evangelical Protestants,…

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Christian Science Monitor: American Grace a ‘treasure trove’ of religious data

November 15, 2010
By tomsander

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Excerpt:

There actually is a “God gap” in present-day American politics, the authors agree: “The Republicans have forged a coalition of the religious … issues like abortion and same-sex marriage…

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Bill Galston: American Grace “path-breaking” contribution to our religious understanding

November 1, 2010
By tomsander

William Galston of the Brookings Institution, a former policy advisor to President Clinton and an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections, writes about American Grace in the October 22, 2010 issue of Commonweal.

Galston calls American Grace…

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Putnam discusses American Grace at Zocalo Public Square

October 22, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt from interview with Putnam about American Grace:

In the 1950s, Putnam said, America was probably more religiously observant than ever in the nation’s history, at least until the “lightning bolt” of the 1960s. As Americans challenged authority…

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Putnam on “The Takeaway” on how America reconciles religiosity and tolerance

October 19, 2010
By tomsander

Listen to Robert Putnam on The Takeaway interview with Celeste Headlee. Putnam notes that America has religiosity as high as a place like Iran but unlike Iran retains high inter-religious comity.   He explains that it has to do with…

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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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