Posts Tagged ‘ Jews ’

Putnam on Islamophobia; views towards other religions (MPR)

November 15, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt: The threatened burning of the Qu’ran in Florida made news because it was extremely rare. … We are on average as religious as the Iranians.  When was the last time you heard of someone burning the Torah or…

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Catholics’ rise in politics

November 3, 2010
By tomsander

John Boehner

It was only a generation ago when John F. Kennedy ran for president with many questioning whether as Catholic he was fit to be president:  would he answer to the people or the Vatican?   American Grace contrasts…

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: American Grace likely to be standard work on religion for a long time

November 1, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt:

The early settlement by Puritans means the original dominant religion was, of course, Protestant. The Constitution excludes the establishment of a national ecclesiastical authority, but the culture was unquestionably built on a mixture of Anglican tradition and, more turbulently,…

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David Campbell on the Marc Steiner Show on American Grace

November 1, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr Photo by levcap

“The most popular religious group in America today is Jews…What’s so interesting about that is that it was only a generation ago or two generations ago when Jewish-Americans would have been viewed as at the…

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What Americans Need to Know About Religion (Huffington Post)

October 6, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Brian H

Diane Winston, discussing the recent Pew survey on religious literacy writes:

The focus on factoids obscures a central challenge of the 21st century: negotiating the absolute conflict of multiple religious absolutes.

That’s a hard lesson for…

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