Posts Tagged ‘ Tea Party ’

Putnam and Campbell: “God and Caesar in America” (2012)

February 27, 2012
By tomsander

Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell have a piece in the March/April 2012 Foreign Affairs, including new findings from the 2011 Faith Matters Survey:

Excerpt:

From the day the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower, religion has played a prominent role in…

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CNN: Putnam/Campbell discussing latest 2012 religion and politics findings

February 24, 2012
By tomsander

Not true historically that God was a Democrat or a Republican.  We’ve lived through an unusual period where there was too close of an association of politics and religion.  And political leaders and religious leaders have paid a price…

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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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Dave Campbell explaining Tea Partiers on Chris Matthews’ Hardball

August 18, 2011
By tomsander
Dave Campbell explaining Tea Partiers on Chris Matthews’ Hardball

American Grace co-author David E. Campbell explains on Hardball that Tea Party supporters are much more likely to be conservative socially, ardent Republicans, anti-immigration with coolness towards blacks, and, more than most Republicans liking to mix religion and politics.

The…

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NYT Op-Ed by Putnam/Campbell “Crashing the Tea Party”

August 17, 2011
By tomsander

Flickr photo by ExpressMonorail

An Op-Ed by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, co-authors of American Grace in today’s New York Times is getting a lot of buzz and is the most e-mailed Times story at the moment.

“Crashing…

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Will Tea Party deflate role of religion in conservative politics?

October 7, 2010
By tomsander

Faces of the Tea Party Movement – Flickr photo by theqspeaks

Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News Reporter, writes: “The rise of the Tea Party movement raises an interesting question about the place of religious faith in our political debate….

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