Posts Tagged ‘ morality ’

Robert Putnam discusses religion and politics with Council on Foreign Relations members

March 21, 2012
By tomsander

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Robert Putnam discussed “God and Caesar in America” with leaders from the Council on Foreign Relations on March 21, 2012 and took their questions.

 

Excerpt:

We’ve seen rapid growth of inequality in America and much more than that the decline of economic…

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A conflict of radical individualism, Christian values and the political right?

November 18, 2011
By tomsander
A conflict of radical individualism, Christian values and the political right?

Rev. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, writes in the Washington Post on 11/10/2011:

Excerpt:

As an evangelical Christian who believes the Republican Party does not have a monopoly on moral values, I …

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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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Mark Silk discussing Rod Dreher and American Grace

November 30, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt: Rod Dreher, late of this site, put in an appearance yesterday in his old newspaper by way of a review essay on Robert Putnam and David Campbell’s hot new book, American Grace: How Religion Unites and Divides Us….

The …

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Rod Dreher’s “All-American Grace”

November 29, 2010
By tomsander

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Rod Dreher calls American Grace “indispensable”.  Excerpt from his Dallas Morning News piece:

The good news is that we Americans of different faith traditions get along remarkably well, not by casting aside religion, but…

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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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Macleans’ Positive Review of American Grace

October 29, 2010
By tomsander

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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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