Posts Tagged ‘ switching ’

Washington Post review of American Grace

December 13, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Rachel Ford James

Excerpt of Washington Post review of American Grace:

Even as a religion reporter, I was surprised by some of the findings in this hefty new book about American religion by political scientists …

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Putnam on KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny

November 16, 2010
By tomsander

Krasny calls American Grace “extraordinary”: Excerpt: Religion is no longer really inherited, the way we used to think of it as an inherited trait, like race or ethnicity.  It’s now much more of a chosen characteristic, which to some extent…

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Financial Times’ review of American Grace

November 15, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt of American Grace review:

At first glance, there is reason to worry a lot about American religion, the authors think. A society with one religion, devoutly followed, ought to be stable. So should a society with…

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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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Opinion piece about American Grace talk at Colby College

September 24, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Jeff Bauche

Joseph R. Reisert (Chairman, Gov. Dept., Colby College) writes about Robert Putnam’s talk about American Grace at Colby and why Putnam is optimistic about future prospects of American religion, despite current frictions between some…

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Obama, religion and politics

September 15, 2010
By tomsander

Obama's Cairo speech – photo by Belgian Sun Flower

I was recently reading “God and Politics, Together Again” (NYT, 9/4/10). 

“To an early supporter like the writer Andrew Sullivan, Mr. Obama’s religious…

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