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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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Mormons move to mainstream

October 1, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by MM Goode

According to Religion News Service:

“Mormons have been making headlines across the nation — from HBO’s Big Love to California’s Proposition 8, from American Idol wannabe David Archuleta to Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, from Senate…

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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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Church-shopping and polarization

May 27, 2010
By tomsander

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David Campbell, Professor at Notre Dame, and co-author of American Grace: How Religion Is Reshaping Our Civic and Political Lives, is cited in this blog piece on how church-shopping is polarizing the…

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Prayer benefits us regardless of religion

May 17, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Manoj Damodaran

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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David Campbell on surprising religious makeup of Supreme Court; Elena Kagan nomination

April 28, 2010
By tomsander
David Campbell on surprising religious makeup of Supreme Court; Elena Kagan nomination

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American Grace co-author David Campbell is quoted in a National Post story on the amazing fact that the U.S.  Supreme Court is likely to have no Protestants:

When Barack Obama nominates a candidate to fill a…

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U.S. News cites Putnam on reattracting youth to religion

June 8, 2009
By tomsander

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Dan Gilgoff, of U.S. News and World Report, in “Churches Fight Back Against Shrinking Youth Membership” (6/3/09) quotes Prof. Robert D. Putnam.

For all their marketing research and high production value, though, mainliners’ branding campaigns face…

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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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