Posts Tagged ‘ polarization ’

Putnam in NYT on debt ceiling and polarization

August 15, 2011
By tomsander

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, in “You Want Compromise? Sure You Do” (Sunday Review, NY Times, 8/14/11) cites American Grace co-author Robert D. Putnam.

Excerpt: THROUGHOUT the debt-ceiling debacle, poll after poll has shown that Americans want politicians in Washington to compromise.

”Americans…

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TIMES Higher Ed Supplement: A Nation’s Saving Grace

January 14, 2011
By tomsander

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Jon Marcus in the TIMES Higher Ed Supplement writes:

Catholics in the Northeast, Protestants in the Midwest, Christian evangelicals in the South, with isolated pockets of Jews, Mormons, Muslims and Buddhists: from the outside…

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Read David Campbell interview with Time and Seasons

January 10, 2011
By tomsander

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Calling American Grace a “page turner” and the “most comprehensive and significant sociological examination of religion in America to be published in decades, and perhaps ever”, Time and Seasons interviewed American Grace co-author David…

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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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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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