Posts Tagged ‘ pew forum ’

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life interviews David Campbell

January 10, 2011
By tomsander

Excerpt of conversation with David Campbell:

Before, I get to the uniting half of our subtitle  , I want to talk a little bit about how religion has divided us as a…

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Martin Marty on “Catholic Drift” issue raised by American Grace

November 4, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by N4N0

Excerpt:

“Everybody’s talking” about data detailing decline of church and synagogue participation as revealed in a Pew Forum and by Putnam and Campbell in their new book American Grace. “Everybody” includes atheists, agnostics,…

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Religious bridging more important than religious literacy

September 29, 2010
By tomsander

David Campbell, co-author of American Grace, was cited in a Christian Science Monitor article for the belief that having inter-religious social ties (religious bridging) is more important to tolerance than knowledge of other faiths’ beliefs (religious literacy).

This in reaction…

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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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Millennials and Religion (David Campbell and Pew Forum)

March 11, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Echobase

American Grace co-author David Campbell appeared on a Pew-sponsored panel called Portrait of the Millennial Generation with Neil Howe, Andy Kohut and Judy Woodruff, among others. Allison Pond, research associate at the Pew Forum on Religion…

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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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