Posts Tagged ‘ tolerance ’

HuffPost: Justus Baird’s advice to Rick Santorum draws on American Grace

March 22, 2012
By tomsander

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Here’s Rabbi Justus Baird’s unsolicited advice to Rick Santorum (kibbutzing) on his campaign strategy in the Huffington Post. Bolded items drawn from American Grace:

Excerpt: I know you’re crazy-campaign-busy…..News about your recent campaign event in Greenwell Springs, La., inspired me to…

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Latest Perspectives on Politics has 4 reviews of “American Grace”

March 21, 2012
By tomsander

The March 2012 issue of Perspectives on Politics (Vol. 10, Issue 1) has a “Review Symposium on Religion and American Public Life”.  The issue has 4 reviews of American Grace (which they mistakenly call “Saving Grace” in their online…

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Strong review of American Grace by Peter Berkowitz for Hoover Institution

October 5, 2011
By tomsander
Strong review of American Grace by Peter Berkowitz for Hoover Institution

“American Grace is a collaborative work by rising star David Campbell, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape our Civic Life, …

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Putnam and Campbell in WSJ on Islam and Tolerance

August 12, 2011
By tomsander

Note: Paperback edition of American Grace out in January/February 2011 with all new epilogue on the findings of our Faith Matters 2011 religion survey.

Excerpt from WSJ Op-Ed by Putnam and Campbell: “What’s the path to religious acceptance in America—and…

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Preacher, rabbi and bishop walk into a bar (Boston Globe)

April 5, 2011
By tomsander
Preacher, rabbi and bishop walk into a bar (Boston Globe)

Religion is right at the center of American life — in fact, it’s such a huge force that it’s hard to track and analyze. Political scientists Robert Putnam (of Harvard) and David Campbell (of Notre Dame)…

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American Grace cited in USA Today piece on views toward Muslims

January 28, 2011
By tomsander
American Grace cited in USA Today piece on views toward Muslims

Flickr photo by RonnAshore

Excerpt:

The Qureshi family marches down a suburban Washington street in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.

Mustafa Qureshi, a Cub Scout, holds an American flag and his sister, Aisha, joins in reciting King’s “I Have…

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TIMES Higher Ed Supplement: A Nation’s Saving Grace

January 14, 2011
By tomsander

Flickr photo by waterDeTuinkabouter

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

Flickr photo by Talke Photography

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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Putnam Discusses “American Grace” on Tavis Smiley

December 21, 2010
By tomsander

“The so called culture war – the notion that Americans are deeply divided and hate each other across religious lines – is a vast exaggeration and a kind of a fun-house mirror that suggests that we are in two…

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